Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

Laboratories of virtue : punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 /

Laboratories of Virtue investigates the complex and contested relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. Using Philadelphia as a case study, Michael Meranze interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early Am...

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Main Author: Meranze, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Subjects:
Punishment > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Prisons > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Prison reformers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Prison reformers
Prisons
Punishment
Penitentiaire inrichtingen.
Gevangeniswezen.
Penitentiair recht.
Penologie.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Public Punishments in Philadelphia
  • Ch. 2. Public Labor
  • Ch. 3. Mimetic Corruption
  • Ch. 4. The Origins of Reformative Incarceration in the City
  • Ch. 5. The Dynamics of Discipline
  • Ch. 6. Boundaries, Architecture, and the Reconstruction of Penal Authority
  • Ch. 7. Discipline, the Family, and the Individual
  • Ch. 8. The Penitential Imagination.

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