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American penology : a history of control
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American penology : a history of control

Thomas G. Blomberg

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Introduction
Public punishment in Colonial America (1600-1790)
Penal code reform in the period of transition (1790-1830)
Age of the penitentiary in nineteenth-century America (1830-1870s)
Progressivism and reformatory, parole, and probation (1880s-1920s)
Progressivism and the juvenile court (1900-1960s)
Twentieth-century rehabilitative ideal and "correctional" system (1900-1960s)
Prison subcultures (1950s-1960s)
Prisoner rights in age of discontent (1960s-1970s)
Decentralizing corrections (1960s-1970s)
Conservatism and law-and-order punishment (1980s-1990s)
Penal system as surrogate institution for special populations
Punishment in millennial age
Conclusion.

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