America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal …
Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in …
What could be more ‘liberal’ than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond …
