Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1971.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-367) and index.
Introduction to the 1990 edition -- The boundaries of colonial society -- Charity and correction in the Eighteenth Century -- The challenge of crime -- The invention pf the penitentiary -- Insanity and the social order -- The new world of asylum -- The paradox of poverty -- The almshouse experience -- The well-ordered asylum -- The legacy of reform -- The enduring institution.