TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothman,David J.
TI  - The discovery of the asylum: social order and disorder in the new republic
T2  - New lines in criminology
SN  - 0202307158 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HV91 .R73 2002
U1  - 306.20973 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Aldine de Gruyter
KW  - Public institutions
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Local
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Asylums
N1  - Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1971; Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-367) and index; Introduction to the 1990 edition -- The boundaries of colonial society -- Charity and correction in the Eighteenth Century -- The challenge of crime -- The invention pf the penitentiary -- Insanity and the social order -- The new world of asylum -- The paradox of poverty -- The almshouse experience -- The well-ordered asylum -- The legacy of reform -- The enduring institution
ER  -