Provides the first complete and literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.
Fills a void in Tocquevillian studies and extrapolates the roots of American penal reform in the nineteenth century.
Appeals to a growing field of scholars investigating civil society, as well as students of political science and theory, history, criminology, and political sociology.