Table of contents for The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.

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Contents
Introduction The Grounds of Legal Punishment
Chapter I Strains of Servitude: Legal Punishment in the Early Republic
Chapter II Due Convictions: Contractual Penal Servitude and Its Discontents
Chapter III Commerce Upon the Throne: The Business of Imprisonment in
Gilded Age America
Chapter IV Disciplining the State, Civilizing the Market: The Abolition of
Contract Prison Labor
Chapter V A Model Servitude: Prison Reform in the Early Progressive Era
Chapter VI Uses of the State: Dialectics of Reform in Early Progressive New
York
Chapter VII American Bastille: Sing Sing and the Political Crisis of Imprisonment
Chapter VIII Changing the Subject: The Metamorphosis of Prison Reform in the
High Progressive Era
Chapter IX Laboratory of Social Justice: The New Penologists at Sing Sing
Chapter X Punishment without Labor: Towards the Modern Penal State
Conclusion On the Crises of Imprisonment
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Prisons -- United States -- History.
Imprisonment -- United States -- History.
Punishment -- United States -- History.