Benevolent Repression
：Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement
Publication subTitle ：Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement
Author： Pisciotta Alexander W.
Publisher： NYU Press
Publication year： 1994
E-ISBN: 9780814768914
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814766385
Subject： D91 Legal departments;D917 犯罪学;K101 Revolutionary History
Keyword： 革命史,犯罪学,法学各部门
Language： ENG
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Description
The opening, in 1876, of the Elmira Reformatory marked the birth of the American adult reformatory movement and the introduction of a new approach to crime and the treatment of criminals. Hailed as a reform panacea and the humane solution to America's ongoing crisis of crime and social disorder, Elmira sparked an ideological revolution. Repression and punishment were supposedly out. Academic and vocational education, military drill, indeterminate sentencing and parole "e;benevolent reform"e; were now considered instrumental to instilling in prisoners a respect for God, law, and capitalism. Not so, says Al Pisciotta, in this highly original, startling, and revealing work. Drawing upon previously unexamined sources from over a half-dozen states and a decade of research, Pisciotta explodes the myth that Elmira and other institutions of "e;the new penology"e; represented a significant advance in the treatment of criminals and youthful offenders. The much-touted programs failed to achieve their goals; instead, prisoners, under Superintendent Zebulon Brockway, considered the Father of American Corrections, were whipped with rubber hoses and two-foot leather straps, restricted to bread and water in dark dungeons during months of solitary confinement, and brutally subjected to a wide range of other draconian psychological and physical abuses intended to pound them into submission. Escapes, riots, violence, drugs, suicide, arson, and rape were the order of the d
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