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Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy: Liberty and Power in the Early Republic

Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy: Liberty and Power in the Early Republic

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral LawGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0814747833
ISBN13: 9780814747834
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 337
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

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 ended before leaders expressed fears that immigrants, African Americans, women, and the lower classes were prone to vice, disorder, and crime. This spurred a generation of penal reformers to promote successfully the most systematic institution ever devised for stripping people of liberty: the penitentiary.

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