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What Happened to Tocqueville’s America?

James Q. Whitman What Happened to Tocqueville's America? T H E R E W AS A T IM E W H E N A M E R IC A N C R IM IN A L P U N IS H M E N T W AS A m odel for the civilized world. That time, which now seems very long ago, was the early nineteenth centuiy. "The fame of the great advances that America had made w ith regard to prisons rang out," as one German com m entator w rote in 1844. "Several governm ents sent delegates to the United States, in order to verify the extent and significance of these im provem ents, and the reports of those who returned from America spread the word widely" (von W ur…