Benevolent Repression : : Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement / / Alexander W. Pisciotta.

The opening, in 1876, of the Elmira Reformatory marked the birth of the American adult reformatory movement and the introduction of a new approach to crime and the treatment of criminals. Hailed as a reform panacea and the humane solution to America's ongoing crisis of crime and social disorder...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]
©1994
Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
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