Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy
Liberty and Power in the Early Republic
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- Hardcover
337 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2005
Summary
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans. American patriots fought a revolution in the name of liberty. Their victory celebrations barely ended before leaders expressed fears that immigrants, African Americans, women, and the lower classes were prone to vice, disorder, and crime. This spurred a generation of penal reformers to promote successfully the most systematic institution ever devised for stripping people of liberty: the penitentiary. Today, Americans laud liberty but few citizens contest the legitimacy of federal, state, and local government authority to incarcerate 2 million people and subject another 4.7 million probationers and parolees to scrutiny, surveillance, and supervision. How did classical liberalism aid in the development of such expansive penal practices in the wake of the War of Independence?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814747834 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0814747833 |
| Author: | Mark E. Kann |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 337 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“This work will take its place among the growing corpus of important studies that examine patriarchy and society’s need to punish its criminals in ways it paradoxically deemed more enlightened and humanitarian than in times past. Kahn uses substantial primary and secondary material… Recommended.” –Choice”Mark E. Kann has written a fascinating, thought-provoking, and timely political-historical study of penal thought and practice in the formative years of the United States.” –American Historical Review “This is a valuable book for those wishing to familiarize themselves with the scholarship on prison reform in the nineteenth-century United States.” -Men and Masculinities
Mark E. Kann
Mark E. Kann, professor of political science and history, holds the USC Associates Chair in Social Science at the University of Southern California. His previous books include The Gendering of American Politics, A Republic of Men (NYU Press, 1998), and On the Man Question.
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