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American Penology A History of Control

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ISBN-10: 0202363341

ISBN-13: 9780202363349

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Thomas G. Blomberg, Karol Lucken

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The purpose of American Penology is to provide a storyof punishment’s past, present, and likely future. The storybegins in the 1600s, in the setting of colonial America, andends in the present. As the story evolves through varioushistorical and contemporary settings, America’s efforts tounderstand and control crime unfold. The context, ideas,practices, and consequences of various reforms in theways crime is punished are described and examined.Though the book’s broader scope and purpose can bedistinguished from prior efforts, it necessarily incorporatesmany contributions from this rich literature. Whilethis enlarged second edition incorporates select descriptionsand contingencies in relation…    
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Book details

List price: $40.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.188

Thomas G. Blomberg is Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. He is the author of American Penology and Punishment and Social Control .

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conceptual Framework
Overview of Book
Public Punishment in Colonial America (1600-1790)
Life in the Colonies
Crime as Sin
Public and Corporal Punishment
Church, Community, and Punishment
Penal Code Reform in the Period of Transition (1790-1830)
Post-Revolutionary America
Crime as Reasoned Behavior
Punishment and Deterrence
Enlightenment, Free Will, and Incarceration
Age of the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century America (1830-1870s)
Jacksonian America and Beyond
Crime as Moral Disease
Promise of the Penitentiary
The Penitentiary in Practice
Southern Justice
Urban Disenchantment, Moral Reform, and the Penitentiary
Progressivism and Reformatory, Parole, and Probation (1880s-1920s)
Progressive America
Crime and Positivism
Promise of Progressive Penology
Progressive Penology in Practice
Progressivism and Individual Treatment
Progressivism and the Juvenile Court (1900-1960s)
Juvenile Court as Progressive Ideology
Promise of Juvenile Courts
Juvenile Court in Practice
Juvenile Court: Advancing Individual Treatment
Twentieth-Century Rehabilitative Ideal and "Correctional" System (1900-1960s)
Rehabilitative Ideal and Crime Causation
Growth and Refinement of the Correctional System
Uneven Progress and Correctional System Failure
Rehabilitative Ideal: Explain, Treat, and Eliminate
Prison Subcultures (1950s-l960s)
Prison Community
Deprivation Model
Importation Model
Female Inmate Subcultures
Total Power and Institutional Control
Living in Prison
Prisoner Rights in the Age of Discontent (1960s-1970s)
Radicalism and Social Reform
Prisoner Rights
Abolishing Capital Punishment
Discovery of Prisoner Rights
Decentralizing Corrections (1960s-1970s)
Labeling Theory: Justifying Decentralization
Development of the Decentralization Movement
Goals and Practices of Decentralization Reforms
Decentralization: Not Less-More
Conservatism and Law-and-Order Punishment (1980s-1990s)
Reversing Course
Neo-Conservative Criminology
Law-and-Order Punishment
Consequences of Law-and-Order Punishment
Punishment Binge
Penal System as Surrogate Institution for Special Populations
Women and Mothers
Elderly
Mentally Ill
Inmates with AIDS and Tuberculosis
Prison as Nursery, Hospital, and Asylum
Punishment in the Millennial Age
Postmodern Society
Integrated Theories of Crime
"Anything Goes" Penal Strategies
Blending Soft and Tough Punishment
Conclusion
Past and Present Penal Practices
Culture of Control
Criminology and Public Policy
Individualism, Rights, and the Culture of Control
References
Index