The purpose of American Penology is to provide a story of punishment's past, present, and likely future

Thomas G. Blomberg

Acknowledgments1 Introduction Conceptual Framework Overview of Book2 Public Punishment in Colonial America (1600 1790) Life in the Colonies Crime as Sin Public and Corporal Punishment Church, Community, and Punishment3 Penal Code Reform in the Period of Transition (1790 1830) Post-Revolutionary America Crime as Reasoned Behavior Punishment and Deterrence Enlightenment, Free Will, and Incarceration4 Age of the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century America (1830 1870s) Jacksonian America and Beyond Crime as Moral Disease Promise of the Penitentiary The Penitentiary in Practice Southern Justice Urban Disenchantment, Moral Reform, and the Penitentiary