Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878

by Michael Stephen Hindus

This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of informal and extralegal authority while South Carolina--a rural southern slave state--systematically reduced its formal legal institutions, frequently relying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807814172
• ISBN13: 9780807814178
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"