Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. In this updated edition, Rothman chronicles and examines incarceration of the criminal, the deviant, and the dependent in U.S. society.

Introduction; 1: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy; 1: Coping with Evil; 2: The World of Criminal Justice; 2: Individual Justice: The Progressive Design; 3: Watching Over the Offender: The Practice of Probation; 4: Up Against the Prison Wall; 5: A Game of Chance: The Condition of Parole; 3: The World of Juvenile Justice; 6: The Invention of the Juvenile Court; 7: The Cult of Judicial Personality; 8: When Is a School Not a School?; 4: The World of Mental Health; 9: Civic Medicine; 10: The Enduring Asylum; 5: Dreams Die Hard; 11: The Diary of an Institution; EPILOGUE The Crime of Punishment

David J. Rothman, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.