Describe the impact of social reform movements on American law and cri

Describe the impact of social reform movements on American law and criminal justice in the early nineteenth century.

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER
Consider: new view of crime as a social, not an individual problem; crime resulted from social environment, not personal sin; new prisons stressed rehabilitation, hard labor, solitary confinement; outlawing of capital punishment and imprisonment for debt in some states; insanity plea accepted.