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Zebulon Reed Brockway
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- Penologist and prison reformer Zebulon Reed Brockway ushered in a new age of social control in America, one ostensibly based on enlightened and rational scientific principles. He is perhaps best known for his criticism of determinate sentencing and his advocacy of its replacement: the indeterminate sentence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Brockway, Zebulon Reed (1827–1920)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Zebulon_Reed_Brockway
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