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
- 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
Appendix A - Inspectors
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
- 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
Summary
The Conclusion reviews the key themes of the book and relates it to the larger literature and our current context. It reviews the lessons Eastern offers for nineteenth-century prison history, for the analysis of prison administration more generally, and for contemporary punishment. Importantly, this chapter relates the importance of recognition for early nineteenth-century penal reformers and prison administrators to the anxiety of penal reform. The chapter closes by contrasting the Pennsylvania System with the current punitive climate and asking what lessons its failure to spread beyond Pennsylvania provide for those seeking penal change.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Deviant PrisonPhiladelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913, pp. 337 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021