Laboratories of virtue
Philadelphia (pa.), history
Prisons, united states
Punishment
Prisons
Criminology
SOCIAL SCIENCE
History
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 Am…
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