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3858850Capital and Convicthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/capital-and-convict-9780813940564/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2608636/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=6383842077911000009061006MXNUniversity of Virginia PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The Souths post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nations imagination that it has come to represent one of the regions hallmark differences from the North. The regions are different, the argument goes, because they punish differently.</p><p><em>Capital and Convict</em> challenges this assumption by offering a comparative study of Illinoiss and South Carolinas formal state penal systems in the fifty years after the Civil War. Henry Kamerling argues that although punishment was racially inflected both during Reconstruction and after, shared, nonracial factors defined both states penal systems throughout this period. The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as centralif not more soin shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States.</p>...3794689Capital and Convict9061006https://www.gandhi.com.mx/capital-and-convict-9780813940564/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2608636/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638384207791100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20179780813940564_W3siaWQiOiJmMzJkYzQwZS1lYzRiLTRhOWQtOWRmMS05YWQxN2IzY2VhNGUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjEwMzksImRpc2NvdW50IjoxMDMsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6OTM2LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wMS0yMlQyMjowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfV0=9780813940564_<p>Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The Souths post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nations imagination that it has come to represent one of the regions hallmark differences from the North. The regions are different, the argument goes, because they punish differently.</p><p><em>Capital and Convict</em> challenges this assumption by offering a comparative study of Illinoiss and South Carolinas formal state penal systems in the fifty years after the Civil War. Henry Kamerling argues that although punishment was racially inflected both during Reconstruction and after, shared, nonracial factors defined both states penal systems throughout this period. The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as centralif not more soin shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States.</p>(*_*)9780813940564_<p>Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The Souths post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nations imagination that it has come to represent one of the regions hallmark differences from the North. The regions are different, the argument goes, because they punish differently.</p><p><em>Capital and Convict</em> challenges this assumption by offering a comparative study of Illinoiss and South Carolinas formal state penal systems in the fifty years after the Civil War. Henry Kamerling argues that although punishment was racially inflected both during Reconstruction and after, shared, nonracial factors defined both states penal systems throughout this period. The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as centralif not more soin shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States.</p>...9780813940564_University of Virginia Presslibro_electonico_38e03cbe-fd19-3856-a316-cd2042be0950_9780813940564;9780813940564_9780813940564Henry KamerlingInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-a7e23838-1644-49cf-8f2c-f2e4b9ded48b.epub2017-11-28T00:00:00+00:00University of Virginia Press