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Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America
M. Colvin
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paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JHB; JKV; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of America's history. In Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs , Mark Colvin tackles the subject of penal change in America by examining three case studies which represent shifts in the interpretation of punishment specifically during the nineteenth century: the rise of penitentiaries in the Northeast; the changes in the treatment of women offenders in the North; and the transformation of punishment in the South after the Civil War. Colvin uses these case studies to ... Read more
The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of America's history. In Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs , Mark Colvin tackles the subject of penal change in America by examining three case studies which represent shifts in the interpretation of punishment specifically during the nineteenth century: the rise of penitentiaries in the Northeast; the changes in the treatment of women offenders in the North; and the transformation of punishment in the South after the Civil War. Colvin uses these case studies to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349404483
SKU
V9781349404483
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About M. Colvin
Mark Colvin is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.
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