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Michael Meranze
352 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780807822777
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensio...
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Michael Meranze
352 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780807822777
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensio...