
Conscience and Convenience
Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America''s prisons and asylums had been broadly acknowledged to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda was evident: t...
Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America''s prisons and asylums had been broadly acknowledged to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda was evident: t...