Conscience and Convenience
The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America
Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America's prisons and asylums had been broadly acknowledge to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda was evident: to develop new, more humane and effective strategies for the criminal, delinquent, and mentally ill. The results, as Rothman documents, did not turn out as reformers had planned. For adult criminal offenders, such individual treatment could be accomplis…
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- ISBN: 978-0-202-30714-5
- EAN: 9780202307145
- Produktnummer: 1470262
- Verlag: Taylor and Francis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 500 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 930 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 930
Über den Autor
David J. Rothman, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
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