Adam J. Hirsch, The rise of the penitentiary: prisons and punishment in early America, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 243, £20.00, $35.00 (0-300-04297-3).

Martin J. Wiener

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Adam J. Hirsch, The rise of the penitentiary: prisons and punishment in early America, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 243, £20.00, $35.00 (0-300-04297-3).

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Adam J. Hirsch, The rise of the penitentiary: prisons and punishment in early America, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 243, £20.00, $35.00 (0-300-04297-3).

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