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The Powers That Punish : Prison and Politics in the Era of the Big House , 1920-1955.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Law, Meaning, and Violence SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Powers That PunishDDC classification:
  • 365/.9774
LOC classification:
  • HV9475
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Prison and Its Political Contexts -- 2. Prohibition, Patronage, and Profit: Building the New Prison at Jackson -- 3. Scandals, Probes, and Purges: The Politics of Reform -- 4. Uniform Discipline and Individual Treatment: The New Model of Corrections and the Jackson Riot of 1952 -- 5. Dressage to Dungeons: Marking Trajectories of Change in Modern Penology -- Index -- Illustrations.
Summary: Explores the nature of punishment in a twentieth-century penitentiary.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Prison and Its Political Contexts -- 2. Prohibition, Patronage, and Profit: Building the New Prison at Jackson -- 3. Scandals, Probes, and Purges: The Politics of Reform -- 4. Uniform Discipline and Individual Treatment: The New Model of Corrections and the Jackson Riot of 1952 -- 5. Dressage to Dungeons: Marking Trajectories of Change in Modern Penology -- Index -- Illustrations.

Explores the nature of punishment in a twentieth-century penitentiary.

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