| The crisis of imprisonment: Protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 RM McLennan Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 407 | 2008 |
| The new penal state: globalization, history, and American criminal justice, c. 2000 R McLennan Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 2 (3), 407-419, 2001 | 16 | 2001 |
| Punishment's “Square Deal” Prisoners and their Keepers in 1920s New York R McLennan Journal of Urban History 29 (5), 597-619, 2003 | 14 | 2003 |
| Citizens and criminals: The rise of the American carceral state, 1890--1935 RM McLennan Columbia University, 1999 | 14 | 1999 |
| The Convict’s Two Lives: Civil and Natural Death in the American Prison R McLennan America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present, 191-219, 2011 | 12 | 2011 |
| When Felons Were Human R McLennan On the Human, http://onthehuman.org/201, 2011 | 5 | 2011 |
| America's human rights crisis in historical perspective R McLennan Social Justice 42 (2 (140), 177-184, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| The Empire of Law Goes to Sea RM McLennan Diplomatic History 44 (5), 786-807, 2020 | | 2020 |
| Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society AW Cohen, D Douglas, TA Freyer, M Grossberg, RM McLennan, ... Cambridge University Press, 0 | | |
