Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy liberty and power in the early American republic /
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2005.
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Table of 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.