Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy liberty and power in the early American republic /
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Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy liberty and power in the early American republic /

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Main Author: Kann, Mark E.
Corporate Authors: ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Justifications for punishment
  • Purposes of punishment
  • Targets of punishment
  • Benjamin Rush : patriarch of penal reform
  • The case against traditional punishments
  • Penitentiary punishment
  • Prison discipline and prison patriarchs
  • Disenchantment
  • Warehousing marginal Americans
  • Concealing punishment
  • Stretching patriarchal political power
  • Conclusion : liberty and power.