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   The Rise of the Penitentiary

   Prisons and Punishment in Early America

   Av Adam J. Hirsch

   Inbunden, 1992

   840 kr

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   Before the 19th century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. After independence, states began to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. Hirsch explores the reasons behind this change.