Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States

by Thomas Dumm

Book by Dumm, Thomas L.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Thomas Dumm is William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Ethics at Amherst College. He is the author of My Father's House, Loneliness as a Way of Life, A Politics of the Ordinary, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom, and Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States, and a coeditor of Performances of Violence.