Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America

ISBN-13: 9781349404483 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 294 str.

M. Colvin

Opis

The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of America's history.

Spis treści

Introduction - Rival Theories of the Transformation of Punishment Systems and Penal Practices - The Rise and Consolidation of the Penitentiary in the Northeast - From Colonies to Early Republic: The Rise of the Penitentiary - Market Revolution and the Consolidation of the Two: Transformation of the Gender Roles and the Punishment of Women Offenders in the North - Before the Civil War: 'True Womanhood' and the 'Depraved' Female Offender - Purity Crusade, Progressivism, and the Development of Woman's Reformatories: Civil War to 1920 - Applying Theories to the Transformation of the Punishment of Women Offenders - Case Study Three: The Transformation of Criminal Punishment in the South - From Slavery to Reconstruction: Penitentiaries and Chain Gangs - Redemption and the New South: Convict Leasing and Lynching - Applying Theories to the Transformation of Punishment in the South - Conclusion: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Understanding Today's Corrections System - Index

O autorze

Mark Colvin is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.