TY  - CHAP
AB  - This essay engages the work of sociologist George Herbert Mead and political theorist William E. Connolly, applying a reading of their understanding of the criminal other to the development of Illinois’ and South Carolina's penal systems at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite an influx of European immigrants, Illinois politicians and prison officials fashioned an approach to corrections that relied on rehabilitation through assimilation as the core component of disciplining its convict population. In contrast to this approach, South Carolina fashioned a penology based upon the principle of exclusion, one that enshrined retribution over rehabilitation in the paradigm of punishment. The essay concludes by comparing the importance of racial and ethno-cultural politics in shaping regional and national debates over correctional policy and by examining the primary function race plays in explaining the current backlash against the rehabilitative ideal informing so much of contemporary penology.
VL  - 37
SN  - 978-0-76231-245-0, 978-1-84950-369-3/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1016/S1059-4337(05)37008-6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(05)37008-6
AU  - Kamerling Henry
ED  - Austin Sarat
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - Assimilation, Exclusion, and the End of Punishment
T2  - Crime and Punishment: Perspectives from the Humanities
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 161
EP  - 198
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -