Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kann, Mark E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--United States--History.

Punishment.

Prisons--United States--History.

Prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans. American patriots fought a revolution in the name of liberty. Their victory celebrations barely ended before leaders expressed fears that immigrants, African Americans, women, and the lower classes were prone to vice, disorder, and crime. This spurred a generation of penal reformers to promote successfully the most systematic institution ever devised for stripping people of liberty: the peniten

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-325) and index.

ISBN:

9780814748671

0814748678

9780814749227

0814749224

9781429414272

1429414278

OCLC:

779828164