Name: Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs
ISBN: 978-0-312-29926-2

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 1-5
Rival Theories of the Transformation of Punishment Systems and Penal Practices
1. Rival Theories of the Transformation of Punishment Systems and Penal Practices
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 7-27
Case Study One:
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 29-30
  
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2. From Colonies to Early Republic: The Rise of the Penitentiary in the Northeast
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 31-71
3. Market Revolution and the Consolidation of the Penitentiary in the Northeast
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 73-107
4. Applying Theories to the Rise and Consolidation of the Penitentiary in the Northeast
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 109-127
Case Study Two:
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 129-130
  
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2. Before the Civil War: “True Womanhood” and the “Depraved” Female Offender
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 131-152
3. The Purity Crusade, Progressivism, and the Development of Women’s Reformatories: From the Civil War to 1920
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 153-184
4. Applying Theories to the Transformation of the Punishment of Women Offenders
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 185-198
Case Study Three:
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 199-200
  
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2. From Slavery to Reconstruction: Penitentiaries and Chain Gangs
  
  Mark Colvin
  
  Pages 201-225
3. Redemption and the New South: Convict Leasing and Lynching
  
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  Pages 227-253
4. Applying Theories to the Transformation of Punishment in the South
  
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  Pages 255-266
5. Conclusion: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Understanding Today’s Corrections System
  
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  Pages 267-273
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The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of America's history. In Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs , Mark Colvin tackles the subject of penal change in America by examining three case studies which represent shifts in the interpretation of punishment specifically during the nineteenth century: the rise of penitentiaries in the Northeast; the changes in the treatment of women offenders in the North; and the transformation of punishment in the South after the Civil War. Colvin uses these case studies to apply four theoretical explanations of penal change, shedding light on both the history of penal authority and the current state of the system today. An engrossing and highly relevant volume, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs is a comprehensive investigation of punishment and its meaning past and present.

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Mark Colvin is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.

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Book Title: Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs
Book Subtitle: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America
Authors: Mark Colvin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299262
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22128-7Published: 11 February 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-312-29926-2Published: 14 August 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 294
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, History of the Americas, Social History, Prison and Punishment, Modern History

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Front Matter

Introduction

Rival Theories of the Transformation of Punishment Systems and Penal Practices

Case Study One:

Front Matter

Case Study Two:

Front Matter

Case Study Three:

Front Matter

Back Matter

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