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

By: Kann, Mark E.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : New York University Press, c2005Description: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Punishment -- United States -- History | Prisons -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.6/0973/09033 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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