2nd Edition
Conscience and Convenience The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America
Edited By Seymour Lipset
Copyright 2002
500 Pages
by
Routledge
500 Pages
by
Routledge
482 Pages
by
Routledge
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Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America's prisons and asylums had been broadly acknowledged to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda was evident:... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy; 1: Coping with Evil; 2: The World of Criminal Justice; 2: Individual Justice: The Progressive Design; 3: Watching Over the Offender: The Practice of Probation; 4: Up Against the Prison Wall; 5: A Game of Chance: The Condition of Parole; 3: The World of Juvenile Justice; 6: The Invention of the Juvenile Court; 7: The Cult of Judicial Personality; 8: When Is a School Not a School?; 4: The World of Mental Health; 9: Civic Medicine; 10: The Enduring Asylum; 5: Dreams Die Hard; 11: The Diary of an Institution; EPILOGUE The Crime of Punishment
Biography
David J. Rothman, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
