Publications

Publications
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1883
Genre: Charities
ISBN:

The Discovery of the Asylum

The Discovery of the Asylum
Author: David J. Rothman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351483633

This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular ideology in the development of prisons and asylums, Rothman provides a compelling argument that is historically informed and socially instructive. He weaves a comprehensive story that sets forth and portrays a series of interrelated events, influences, and circumstances that are shown to be connected to the development of prisons and asylums. Rothman demonstrates that meaningful historical interpretation must be based upon not one but a series of historical events and circumstances, their connections and ultimate consequences. Thus, the history of prisons and asylums in the youthful United States is revealed to be complex but not so complex that it cannot be disentangled, described, understood, and applied.This reissue of a classic study addresses a core concern of social historians and criminal justice professionals: Why in the early nineteenth century did a single generation of Americans resort for the first time to institutional care for its convicts, mentally ill, juvenile delinquents, orphans, and adult poor? Rothman's compelling analysis links this phenomenon to a desperate effort by democratic society to instill a new social order as it perceived the loosening of family, church, and community bonds. As debate persists on the wisdom and effectiveness of these inherited solutions, The Discovery of the Asylum offers a fascinating reflection on our past as well as a source of inspiration for a new century of students and professionals in criminal justice, corrections, social history, and law enforcement.

State Charities Aid Association Annual Report

State Charities Aid Association Annual Report
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1878
Genre: Charities
ISBN:

Reports for 1909/10-1920/21 include the association's 18th-29th Annual report to the State Hospital Commission ( varies slightly)

Expelling the Poor

Expelling the Poor
Author: Hidetaka Hirota
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 019061921X

Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.