Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-468) and index.
I. The Nineteenth-Century Legacy -- 1. Coping with Evil -- II. The World of Criminal Justice -- 2. Individual Justice: The Progressive Design -- 3. Watching Over the Offender: The Practice of Probation -- 4. Up Against the Prison Wall -- 5. A Game of Chance: The Condition of Parole -- III. The World of Juvenile Justice -- 6. The Invention of the Juvenile Court -- 7. The Cult of Judicial Personality -- 8. When Is a School Not a School? -- IV. The World of Mental Health -- 9. Civic Medicine -- 10. The Enduring Asylum -- V. Dreams Die Hard -- 11. The Diary of an Institution -- Epilogue: The Crime of Punishment.
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"This book is a contribution to American social history and social policy in its own right, as well as forming a sequel to Rothman's earlier book, "The Discovery of the Asylum". Here, Rothman explores the origins and consequences of the programmes that have dominated criminal justice, juvenile justice and mental health in the past century. He also casts new light on the modern effort to reform the asylum and devise alternatives to it. Rothman aims to further our understanding of the fundamental character of social order - and disorder - in the United States. A new epilogue assesses prison conditions in America over the past two decades and the more recent failed attempts to reform them"--OCLC.