Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs

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Over the course of U.S. history, the very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes and has served as /5. An engrossing and highly relevant volume, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs is a comprehensive investigation of punishment and its meaning past and : M.

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Colvin: Books - 5/5(2). An engrossing and highly relevant volume, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs is a comprehensive investigation of punishment and its meaning past and present. Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende. Mark Colvin is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.

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by M. Colvin (Author)5/5(3). Note that the night houses were not prisons distinct from earlier penitentiaries and reformatories. They were the old penitentiaries and reformatories expanded in size to accommodate larger inmate populations.

Originally, big house prisons exploited inmate labor through various links to the free market. An engrossing and highly relevant volume, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs is a comprehensive investigation of punishment and its meaning past and present. Penitentiaries, Reformatories and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America.

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[M Colvin]. Penitentiaries, Reformatories and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth Century America5/5. Mark Colvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University.

His books include Crime and Coercion, The Penitentiary in Crisis, and Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs. He has written several articles in the areas of criminological theory, prison violence, corrections, and labor markets and by: Abstract. T o understand the rise of chain gangs and convict leasing after the Civil War, it is important to understand the Old South and its criminal punishment practices prior to the war.

The antebellum South contained a unique blend of an old and settled slave-owning aristocracy on the Atlantic coast of South Carolina and Georgia, newer plantations in areas of expanding cotton agriculture Author: Mark Colvin. In his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J.

Mancini chronicles one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American history. Devastated by war, bewildered by peace, and unprepared to confront the problems of prison management, Southern states sought to alleviate the need for cheap labor, a perceived rise in criminal behavior, and the bankruptcy.

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Free shipping and more for Millionaire's Club members. Visit our book stores, or shop g: Reformatories.The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La Grange, and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville.

It was completed in to replace the Kentucky State Reformatory located in Frankfort after a flood damaged the original property. The acre Capacity: 2,