Forgotten reformer : Robert Mcclaughry and criminal justice reform in nineteenth-century America / Frank Morn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morn, Frank, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Justice, Administration of--United States.

Justice, Administration of.

McClaughry, R. W. (Robert Wilson), 1839-1920.

McClaughry, R. W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through Robert McClaughry's career as a prison warden, a chief of police of Chicago, a reformatory superintendent, and one of the first federal prison wardens. McClaughry developed and led a reform movement that resonates today.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: MCCLAUGHRY AND HIS MIDDLE BORDER BEGINNINGS; Chapter 01. Matters of Place; Chapter 02. Matters of Faith; Chapter 03. Matters of the Mind; Chapter 04. Matters of War; Chapter 05. Matters of Business; Part II: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN POST-CIVIL WAR ILLINOIS; Chapter 06. Crime; Chapter 07. Punishment at Alton; Chapter 08. Early Joliet; Chapter 09. McClaughry at Joliet; Chapter 10. The Prisoners; Chapter 11. Prison Workers; Chapter 12. McClaughry and Reform; Chapter 13. The Bertillon System; Chapter 14. Fond Farewells

Part III: MCCLAUGHRY AND THE REFORMATORY MOVEMENT Chapter 15. Youth Crime in Pennsylvania; Chapter 16. The Reformatory; Chapter 17. McClaughry at Huntingdon; Part IV: POLICING CHICAGO; Chapter 18. Chicago in the 1890's; Chapter 19. Policing the City; Chapter 20. McClaughry and the Police; Chapter 21. Crusades against Crime and Disorder; Chapter 22. Moving on; Part V: STATE POLITICS AND PENOLOGY: MCCLAUGHRY AT PONTIAC; Chapter 23. Youth Crime in Illinois; Chapter 24. John Peter Altgeld; Chapter 25. Pontiac Reformatory; Chapter 26. State Politics and Prisons; photospread 01

Part IV: GROWING A PRISON PROFESSION Chapter 27. Rise of Professionalism in Penology; Chapter 28. Academics v. Practitioners; Chapter 29. "Buckets and Brooms"; Chapter 30. Ascendancy of the Wardens; Part VII: MCCLAUGHRY AT LEAVENWORTH; Chapter 31. Rise of Federal Corrections; photospread 02; Chapter 32. McClaughry Comes to Leavenworth; Chapter 33. Crises at Leavenworth; Chapter 34. Prison Workers at Leavenworth; Chapter 35. To All Purposes Futile; Afterword: Forlorn Hope; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7618-8654-0

1-283-21376-1

9786613213761

0-7618-5301-4

OCLC:

704285413