The Deviant Prison - Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913

About the author

Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Her work has been published in top international journals for interdisciplinary studies of law, punishment, and criminology and has appeared as a TEDx talk.

Summary

Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley T Rubin, Ashley T. Rubin
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108718882
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71888-2
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, Legal History, History of the Americas, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology