American Penology: A History of Control

by Blomberg,Thomas G.

• ISBN13: 9780202363349
• ISBN10: 0202363341
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-30
• Publisher: RUTGERS UNIV PRESS

Summary

The purpose of American Penologyis to provide a story of punishments past, present, and likely future. The story begins in the 1600s, in the setting of colonial America, and ends in the present. As the story evolves through various historical and contemporary settings, Americas efforts to understand and control crime unfold. The context, ideas, practices, and consequences of various reforms in the ways crime is punished are described and examined.Though the books broader scope and purpose can be distinguished from prior efforts, it necessarily incorporates many contributions from this rich literature. While this enlarged second edition incorporates select descriptions and contingencies in relation to particular eras and punishment ideas and practices, it does not limit itself to individual "histories" of these eras. Instead, it uses history to frame and help explain particular punishment ideas and practices in relation to the period and context from which they evolved. The authors focus upon selected demographic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual contingencies that are associated with historical and contemporary eras to show how these contingencies shaped Americas punishment ideals and practices.In offering a new understanding of received notions of crime control in this edition, Blomberg and Lucken not only provide insights into the future of punishment, but also show how the larger culture of control extends beyond the field of criminology to have an impact on declining levels of democracy, freedom, and privacy.

Author Biography

Thomas G. Blomberg is dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University. He is the author, of numerous books and articles, including Punishment and Social Control and Juvenile Court and Community Corrections. Karol Lucken is professor at the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida, and author of numerous scholarly articles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptual Framework	p. 1
Overview of Book	p. 4
Public Punishment in Colonial America (1600-1790)	p. 11
Life in the Colonies	p. 12
Crime as Sin	p. 14
Public and Corporal Punishment	p. 16
Church, Community, and Punishment	p. 22
Penal Code Reform in the Period of Transition (1790-1830)	p. 25
Post-Revolutionary America	p. 26
Crime as Reasoned Behavior	p. 29
Punishment and Deterrence	p. 32
Enlightenment, Free Will, and Incarceration	p. 40
Age of the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century America (1830-1870s)	p. 41
Jacksonian America and Beyond	p. 42
Crime as Moral Disease	p. 45
Promise of the Penitentiary	p. 48
The Penitentiary in Practice	p. 53
Southern Justice	p. 57
Urban Disenchantment, Moral Reform, and the Penitentiary	p. 59
Progressivism and Reformatory, Parole, and Probation (1880s-1920s)	p. 61
Progressive America	p. 62
Crime and Positivism	p. 68
Promise of Progressive Penology	p. 70
Progressive Penology in Practice	p. 77
Progressivism and Individual Treatment	p. 83
Progressivism and the Juvenile Court (1900-1960s)	p. 85
Juvenile Court as Progressive Ideology	p. 86
Promise of Juvenile Courts	p. 88
Juvenile Court in Practice	p. 92
Juvenile Court: Advancing Individual Treatment	p. 99
Twentieth-Century Rehabilitative Ideal and "Correctional" System (1900-1960s)	p. 101
Rehabilitative Ideal and Crime Causation	p. 102
Growth and Refinement of the Correctional System	p. 110
Uneven Progress and Correctional System Failure	p. 118
Rehabilitative Ideal: Explain, Treat, and Eliminate	p. 121
Prison Subcultures (1950s-l960s)	p. 123
Prison Community	p. 124
Deprivation Model	p. 126
Importation Model	p. 130
Female Inmate Subcultures	p. 133
Total Power and Institutional Control	p. 135
Living in Prison	p. 137
Prisoner Rights in the Age of Discontent (1960s-1970s)	p. 141
Radicalism and Social Reform	p. 142
Prisoner Rights	p. 147
Abolishing Capital Punishment	p. 159
Discovery of Prisoner Rights	p. 161
Decentralizing Corrections (1960s-1970s)	p. 163
Labeling Theory: Justifying Decentralization	p. 164
Development of the Decentralization Movement	p. 166
Goals and Practices of Decentralization Reforms	p. 169
Decentralization: Not Less-More	p. 177
Conservatism and Law-and-Order Punishment (1980s-1990s)	p. 179
Reversing Course	p. 180
Neo-Conservative Criminology	p. 184
Law-and-Order Punishment	p. 185
Consequences of Law-and-Order Punishment	p. 197
Punishment Binge	p. 203
Penal System as Surrogate Institution for Special Populations	p. 207
Women and Mothers	p. 208
Elderly	p. 216
Mentally Ill	p. 221
Inmates with AIDS and Tuberculosis	p. 227
Prison as Nursery, Hospital, and Asylum	p. 233
Punishment in the Millennial Age	p. 235
Postmodern Society	p. 236
Integrated Theories of Crime	p. 237
"Anything Goes" Penal Strategies	p. 238
Blending Soft and Tough Punishment	p. 257
Conclusion	p. 259
Past and Present Penal Practices	p. 259
Culture of Control	p. 265
Criminology and Public Policy	p. 269
Individualism, Rights, and the Culture of Control	p. 271
References	p. 275
Index	p. 295
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