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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meranze, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
Colección:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Temas:
Punishment > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Prisons > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Prison reformers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Prisons > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Réformateurs de prison > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Prison reformers.
Prisons.
Punishment.
Penitentiaire inrichtingen.
Gevangeniswezen.
Penitentiair recht.
Penologie.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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