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Laboratories of Virtue investigates the complex and contested relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. Using Philadelphia as a case study, Michael Meranze interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic.
Laboratories of Virtue demonstrates the ramifications of the history of punishment for the struggles to define a new revolution order. By focusing attention on the system of public penal labor that developed in the 1780s, Meranze effectively links penal reform to the development of republican principles in the Revolutionary era. In addition, Meranze argues, the emergence of reformative incarceration was a crucial symptom of the crises of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary public spheres.
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History, Punishment, Prison reformers, Prisons, Philadelphia (pa.), history, Prisons, united states, Histoire, Réformateurs de prison, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), SOCIAL SCIENCE, Criminology, Penitentiaire inrichtingen, Gevangeniswezen, Penitentiair recht, PenologiePlaces
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Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
2012, University of North Carolina Press
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Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
2012, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
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0807838276 9780807838273
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Laboratories of virtue: punishment, revolution, and authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
1996, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807822779 9780807822777
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Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
1996, University of North Carolina Press
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