The purpose of American Penology is to provide a story of
punishment's past, present, and likely future. The story begins in
the 1600s, in the setting of colonial America, and ends in the
present. As the story evolves through various historical and
contemporary settings, America's efforts to understand and control
crime unfold. The context, ideas, practices, and consequences of
various reforms in the ways crime is punished are described and
examined.
Though the book's broader scope and purpose can be distinguished
from prior efforts, it necessarily incorporates many contributions
from this rich literature. While this enlarged second edition
incorporates select descriptions and contingencies in relation to
particular eras and punishment ideas and practices, it does not
limit itself to individual "histories" of these eras. Instead, it
uses history to frame and help explain particular punishment ideas
and practices in relation to the period and context from which they
evolved. The authors focus upon selected demographic, economic,
political, religious, and intellectual contingencies that are
associated with historical and contemporary eras to show how these
contingencies shaped America's punishment ideals and practices.
In offering a new understanding of received notions of crime
control in this edition, Blomberg and Lucken not only provide
insights into the future of punishment, but also show how the
larger culture of control extends beyond the field of criminology
to have an impact on declining levels of democracy, freedom, and
privacy.
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