Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy : : Liberty and Power in the Early Republic / / Mark E. Kann.
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 e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Punishment
- 1 Justifications for Punishment
- 2 Purposes of Punishment
- 3 Targets of Punishment
- Part II Prisons
- 4 Benjamin Rush: Patriarch of Penal Reform
- 5 The Case against Traditional Punishments
- 6 Penitentiary Punishment
- 7 Prison Discipline and Prison Patriarchs
- 8 Disenchantment
- 9 Warehousing Marginal Americans
- Part III Patriarchy
- 10 Concealing Punishment
- 11 Stretching Patriarchal Political Power
- Conclusion: Liberty and Power
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author