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The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice / Gordon S. Bates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bates, Gordon S., author.
- Series:
- Driftless Connecticut series.
- The Driftless Connecticut Series and Garnet Bks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Connecticut--History.
- Prisons.
- Prison administration--Connecticut--History.
- Prison administration.
- Corrections--Connecticut--History.
- Corrections.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Connecticut--History.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Connecticut Prison Association.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (543 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- How a groundbreaking advocacy organization has helped shape Connecticut's criminal justice system since 1875.
- Contents:
- Introduction: two faces of justice
- Connecticut's cultural context, 1875
- From Newgate Prison to Wethersfield State Prison, 1775-1875
- Rehabilitation rekindled, 1875-1910
- Continuity and regression, 1910-1933
- Reform during the Maltbie era, 1933-1960
- The culmination of progressive reform, 1960-1970
- Rehabilitation's last hurrah, 1970-1980
- The return of retributive justice, 1980-1990
- The legacies of retribution, 1990-2000
- Epilogue: five critical questions.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780819576774
- 0819576778
- OCLC:
- 956435218
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