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The Crisis of Imprisonment - Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Paperback)
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The Crisis of Imprisonment - Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed
the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this
groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan
covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and
political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She
details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits
of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree
labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores
the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War,
where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she
discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized
the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh
evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in
each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent
culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.
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