Publisher's Synopsis
Explores attitudes toward crime, madness and poverty, and asks the question, why did Americans, beginning in the 1800s construct prisons and insane asylums to confine their deviant population.
The Discovery of the Asylum Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
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Book information
| ISBN: | 9780316757454 |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Pub date: | 01 Jan 1990 |
| Edition: | Revised Edition |
| DEWEY: | 361.05 |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 380 |
| Weight: | 594g |
| Height: | 209mm |
| Width: | 140mm |
| Spine width: | 28mm |
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