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Religion and the development of the American penal system / Andrew Skotnicki.

Title
Religion and the development of the American penal system / Andrew Skotnicki.
Author
Skotnicki, Andrew.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2000.

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188 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Prisons > United States > History
  • Imprisonment > United States > History
  • Imprisonment > Protestantism
  • Religion and social problems > United States > History
  • Religion and justice
  • Imprisonment > Protestant churches
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-179) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chapter 1 Religion and the Penal System 1 -- Chapter 2 Evangelical Millennium and the Rise of the Penitentiaries 11 -- Chapter 3 Different Roads to the Kingdom: New York and Pennsylvania 49 -- Chapter 4 Sentimentalism, Science and the Progressive Movement 93 -- Chapter 5 Religion, Progress and the End of the Penitentiaries 133 -- Chapter 6 An Institution in Search of Meaning 141.
ISBN
0761818103 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00060712^
OCLC
44720568
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library