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

ISBN-13: 9781108484947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Ashley T. Rubin

Opis

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'… Rubin's account is immersive and rich in detail, making it well-worth reading for scholars of punishment as well as sociologists of organizations, occupations, and work. I personally admire it as a model for doing archival research and successfully blending historical and social science methods.' Sarah Shannon, Social Forces

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing the Conditions for Personal Institutionalization: 1. Faith and Failure: Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America's Early State Prisons; 2. Born of Conflict: the Struggle to Authorize the Pennsylvania System; 3. Uncertainty and Discretion: the Contours of Control at Eastern State Penitentiary; 4. Criticism and Doubt: the Pennsylvania System and the Social Construction of Penal Norms; Part II. The Advantage of Difference: the Process of Institutionalization: 5. Neutralizing the Calumnious Myths: Administrators' Public Defense of the Pennsylvania System; 6. Combatting the Pains of Deviance: Organizational Defense as Self-defense; 7. Strategic Manipulations: Acceptable and Unacceptable Violations of the Pennsylvania System; 8. Turning a Blind Eye: Reputation and the Limits of Administrative Commitment; Part III. Forced to Adapt: the Conditions for and Process of Deinstitutionalization: 9. An Alternative Status: Administrators' Transition from Gentleman Reformers to Professional Penologists; 10. Fading Away: National Obscurity, Catastrophic Overcrowding, and the Individual Treatment System; Conclusion.