Ashley T. Rubin (Manoa University of Hawaii)

The Deviant Prison

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Produktbeschreibung

Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781108718882
• ISBN-10: 1108718884
• Artikelnr.: 64823200

Autorenporträt

Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa. Her work has been published in top international journals for interdisciplinary studies of law, punishment, and criminology and has appeared as a TEDx talk.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing the
Conditions for Personal Institutionalization: 1. Faith and Failure:
Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America's Early State Prisons;
2. Born of Conflict: the Struggle to Authorize the Pennsylvania System; 3.
Uncertainty and Discretion: the Contours of Control at Eastern State
Penitentiary; 4. Criticism and Doubt: the Pennsylvania System and the
Social Construction of Penal Norms; Part II. The Advantage of Difference:
the Process of Institutionalization: 5. Neutralizing the Calumnious Myths:
Administrators' Public Defense of the Pennsylvania System; 6. Combatting
the Pains of Deviance: Organizational Defense as Self-defense; 7. Strategic
Manipulations: Acceptable and Unacceptable Violations of the Pennsylvania
System; 8. Turning a Blind Eye: Reputation and the Limits of Administrative
Commitment; Part III. Forced to Adapt: the Conditions for and Process of
Deinstitutionalization: 9. An Alternative Status: Administrators'
Transition from Gentleman Reformers to Professional Penologists; 10. Fading
Away: National Obscurity, Catastrophic Overcrowding, and the Individual
Treatment System; Conclusion.