| Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America Contributor(s): Glenn, Myra C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873958136 ISBN-13: 9780873958134 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.670 |
| LCCN: 84008476 |
| Series: Suny Series in American Social History |
| Physical Information: (0.68 lbs) 221 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Campaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. It probes the concerns underlying the naval, prison, domestic, and educational reform campaigns which occurred in New England and New York from the late 1820s to the late 1850s. Focusing on the common forms of physical punishment inflicted on seamen, prisoners, women, and children, the book reveals the effect of these campaigns on actual disciplinary practices. Myra C. Glenn also places the crusade against corporal punishment in the context of various other contemporary reform movements such as the crusade against intemperance and that against slavery. She shows how regional and political differences affected discussions of punishment and discipline. |