Conscience and Convenience

Conscience and Convenience

The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America

by David J. Rothman

482 pages· ISBN 9780202307145
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"In this updated new edition, Rothman chronicles and examines incarceration of the criminal, the deviant, and the dependent in U.S. society, with a focus on how and why these methods have persisted and expanded for over a century and a half, despite longstanding evidence of their failures and abuses. A new epilogue, written for this Aldine paperback edition, assesses prison conditions in America over the past two decades and the more recent failed attempts to reform them." -- Back Cover

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