Title: The Prison Reform Movement: Forlorn Hope (SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PAST AND PRESENT)
Publisher: Twayne Pub
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0805797394
ISBN 13: 9780805797398
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 0.9 pounds

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Traces the history of prison reform in the United States, as the reformers' attempts to set up a system that would deter further crime and rehabilitate convicts come into conflict with the need to punish and the inherent character of imprisonment

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This is a short history of penal reform in the United States. The title is derived from a statement by an early 19th-century observer who noted that reformation of offenders within prisons was a "forlorn hope." Sullivan's thesis is that not much has changed, a position shared by most criminologists. The author, a former librarian at the Maryland State Penitentiary, hopes for more humane treatment, but doesn't see it as likely given the current structure of society. While the same material can be found in criminology texts, this is a good short history of the unsuccessful attempts to punish, deter, and rehabilitate within the same institution.
- John Broderick, Stonehill Coll., North Easton, Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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