Thomas G Blomberg

American Penology

A History of Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a fresh understanding of received notions of crime control, this edition not only provides insights into the future of punishment, but also shows how the larger culture of control extends beyond the field of criminology to have an impact on declining levels of democracy, freedom, and privacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd Enlarged edition
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780202363349
• ISBN-10: 0202363341
• Artikelnr.: 26431347

Autorenporträt

Thomas G. Blomberg

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments1 Introduction Conceptual Framework Overview of Book2 Public
Punishment in Colonial America (1600 1790) Life in the Colonies Crime as
Sin Public and Corporal Punishment Church, Community, and Punishment3 Penal
Code Reform in the Period of Transition (1790 1830) Post-Revolutionary
America Crime as Reasoned Behavior Punishment and Deterrence Enlightenment,
Free Will, and Incarceration4 Age of the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century
America (1830 1870s) Jacksonian America and Beyond Crime as Moral Disease
Promise of the Penitentiary The Penitentiary in Practice Southern Justice
Urban Disenchantment, Moral Reform, and the Penitentiary