Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy liberty and power in the early American republic /

Kann, Mark E.

Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy liberty and power in the early American republic / [electronic resource] : Mark E. Kann. - New York : New York University Press, c2005. - ix, 337 p.

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

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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