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Book Title
The Rise of the Penitentiary
Publication Name
The Rise of the Penitentiary
Title
The Rise of the Penitentiary
Subtitle
Prisons and Punishment in Early America
Author
Adam J. Hirsch
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0300042973
EAN
9780300042979
ISBN
9780300042979
Publisher
Yale University Press
Genre
History, Social Science
Topic
General, Penology
Release Year
1992
Release Date
24/06/1992
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.1in
Item Length
0.9in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Series
Yale Historical Publications Series
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
244 Pages

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Before the nineteenth century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. Only after independence did American states begin to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. In this legal, social, and political history, Adam J. Hirsch explores the reasons behind this change. Hirsch draws on evidence from throughout the early Republic and examines European sources to establish the American penitentiary's ideological origins and parallel development abroad. He focuses on Massachusetts as a case study of the transformation and presents in-depth data from that state. He challenges the notion that the penitentiary came as a by-product of Enlightenment thought, contending instead that the ideological foundations for criminal incarceration had been laid long before the eighteenth century and were premised upon old criminological theories. According to Hirsch, it was not new ideas but new social realities--the increasing urbanization and population mobility that promoted rampant crime--that made the penitentiary attractive to post-revolutionary legislators. Hirsch explores possible economic motives for incarcerating criminals and sentencing them to hard labor, but concludes that there is little evidence to support this. He finds that advocates of the penitentiary intended only that the prison pay for itself through enforced labor. Moreover, prison advocates frequently involved themselves in other contemporary social movements that reflected their concern to promote the welfare of criminals along with other oppressed groups.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300042973
ISBN-13
9780300042979
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111842

Product Key Features

Author
Adam J. Hirsch
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Penology
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
244 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv9304.H57 1992
Publication Name
Rise of the Penitentiary : Prisons and Punishment in Early America
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
91-037294
Dewey Decimal
365.973
Series
Yale Historical Publications Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes

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