| Edition |
Enlarged second edition. |
| Description |
ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index. |
| Summary |
"The purpose of American Penology is to provide a story of punishment's past, present, and likely future. The story begins in the 1600s, in the setting of colonial America, and ends in the present As the story evolves through various historical and contemporary settings, America's efforts to understand and control crime unfold. The context, ideas, practices, and consequences of various punishment reforms are described and examined. Though the book's broader scope and purpose can be distinguished from prior efforts, it necessarily incorporates many contributions from this rich literature. These many contributions are explicitly discussed in the book, and their relationship to the story of American penology is self-evident (e.g., the rise of prisons, reformatories, probation, parole, and juvenile courts, the origins and functions of prison subcultures, the needs of special inmate populations, the effectiveness of community-based alternatives to incarceration). It is important to acknowledge that while this book incorporates selected descriptions of historical contingencies in relation to particular eras and punishment ideas and practices, it does not provide individual "histories" of these eras. Rather than doing history, this book uses history to frame and help explain particular punishment ideas and practices in relation to the period and context from which they evolved. The authors focus upon selected demographic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual con-tingencies that are associated with particular historical and contemporary eras to suggest how these contingencies shaped America's punishment ideas and practices. The purpose is to inform the reader about American penology's story as it evolved over several centuries. The focus is purposely narrowed to major punishment reform eras and selected historical influences. In offering a new understanding of received notions of crime control, Blomberg and Lucken not only provide insights into its future, but also show how the larger culture of control extends beyond the field of criminology to have an impact on declining levels of democracy, freedom, and privacy"--Back cover. |
| Contents |
Public punishment in Colonial America (1600-1790) -- Penal code reform in the period of transition (1790-1830) -- Age of the penitentiary in nineteenth-century America (1830-1870s) -- Progressivism and reformatory, parole, and probation (1880s-1920s) -- Progressivism and the juvenile court (1900-1960s) -- Twentieth-century rehabilitative ideal and "correctional" system (1900-1960s) -- Prison subcultures (1950s-1960s) -- Prisoner rights in age of discontent (1960s-1970s) -- Decentralizing corrections (1960s-1970s) -- Conservatism and law-and-order punishment (1980s-1990s) -- Penal system as surrogate institution for special populations -- Punishment in millennial age. |
| Subject |
Prisons -- United States -- History.
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Punishment -- United States -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1600-2010.
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| Added Author |
Lucken, Karol.
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| ISBN |
9780202363349 alkaline paper |
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0202363341 alkaline paper |
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