Seminary of Virtue : The Ideology and Practice of Inmate Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1971
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Paul Kahan
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1433113414
ISBN-13
9781433113413
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New
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 29th, 2012
Print length
201 Pages
Weight
324 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.50 x 1.60 cms
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Explores the history of penal education programs, demonstrating that America's prisons have historically been educational institutions. This book demonstrates that for the last two hundred years penologists have believed that educational programming was one of the keys to lowering recidivism and reforming inmates.
Seminary of Virtue explores the history of penal education programs, demonstrating that America’s prisons have historically been educational (as well as punitive) institutions. This volume argues that Eastern State Penitentiary’s extensive and aggressive educational program reflected a general American belief that correctional institutions should educate inmates as a way of reducing recidivism and thereby «reforming» them. No mere case study, Seminary of Virtue demonstrates that for the last two hundred years penologists have believed that educational programming was one of the keys to lowering recidivism and «reforming» inmates. Seminary of Virtue also reveals the historical amnesia that hindered American penal reform over the same time period as each succeeding generation believed that their particular penal reforms were revolutionary.
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