The Deviant Prison Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- A Brief Timeline
- Important Actors
- Introduction
- Part I Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing The Conditions for Personal Institutionalization
- 1 Faith and Failure: Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America’s Early State Prisons
- 2 Born of Conflict: The Struggle to Authorize the Pennsylvania System
- B The Men in Charge
- 3 Uncertainty and Discretion: The Contours of Control at Eastern State Penitentiary
- 4 Criticism and Doubt: The Pennsylvania System and the Social Construction of Penal Norms
- Part II THE ADVANTAGE OF DIFFERENCE: The Process of Institutionalization
- Part III Forced to Adapt: The Conditions for and Process of Deinstitutionalization
- Appendix A Inspectors
- Index
B - The Men in Charge
from Part I - Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing The Conditions for Personal Institutionalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- A Brief Timeline
- Important Actors
- Introduction
- Part I Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing The Conditions for Personal Institutionalization
- 1 Faith and Failure: Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America’s Early State Prisons
- 2 Born of Conflict: The Struggle to Authorize the Pennsylvania System
- B The Men in Charge
- 3 Uncertainty and Discretion: The Contours of Control at Eastern State Penitentiary
- 4 Criticism and Doubt: The Pennsylvania System and the Social Construction of Penal Norms
- Part II THE ADVANTAGE OF DIFFERENCE: The Process of Institutionalization
- Part III Forced to Adapt: The Conditions for and Process of Deinstitutionalization
- Appendix A Inspectors
- Index
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- The Deviant PrisonPhiladelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913, pp. 63 - 64Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021