TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paul Kahan
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Seminary of Virtue
T2  - The Ideology and Practice of Inmate Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1971
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109089
N2  - Seminary of Virtue explores the history of penal education programs, demonstrating that America’s prisons have historically been educational (as well as punitive) institutions. This volume argues that Eastern State Penitentiary’s extensive and aggressive educational program reflected a general American belief that correctional institutions should educate inmates as a way of reducing recidivism and thereby «reforming» them. No mere case study, Seminary of Virtue demonstrates that for the last two hundred years penologists have believed that educational programming was one of the keys to lowering recidivism and «reforming» inmates. Seminary of Virtue also reveals the historical amnesia that hindered American penal reform over the same time period as each succeeding generation believed that their particular penal reforms were revolutionary.
KW  - educational program, recidivism, history
LA  - English
ER  -