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Coxsackie : The Life and Death of Prison Reform.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconfiguring American Political History SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421413235
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: CoxsackieDDC classification:
  • 365.709747
LOC classification:
  • HV9481.C69.C697 201
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Ashes of Reform -- PART ONE: THE RAPID RISE OF PRISON REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1929-1944 -- 1 The Reformer's Mural: The Liberal Penal Imagination -- 2 A New Deal for Prisons: The Politics of Reform in New York -- PART TWO: PRISON LIVES AND THE WORLD OF THE REFORMATORY -- 3 Adolescents Adrift: Young Men on the Road to Coxsackie -- 4 Against the Wall: Survival and Resistance at Coxsackie -- 5 Reform at Work: Ideas into Action at Coxsackie -- 6 A Conspiracy of Frustration: Coming Home -- PART THREE: THE SLOW DEATH OF PRISON REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1944-1977 -- 7 The Frying Pan and the Fire: The Reformatory in Crisis, 1944-1963 -- 8 Out of Time: Coxsackie and the End of the Reform Idea -- 9 Floodtide: Coxsackie and Post-Reformatory Prison Politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion. The Ghost of Prisons Future -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Ashes of Reform -- PART ONE: THE RAPID RISE OF PRISON REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1929-1944 -- 1 The Reformer's Mural: The Liberal Penal Imagination -- 2 A New Deal for Prisons: The Politics of Reform in New York -- PART TWO: PRISON LIVES AND THE WORLD OF THE REFORMATORY -- 3 Adolescents Adrift: Young Men on the Road to Coxsackie -- 4 Against the Wall: Survival and Resistance at Coxsackie -- 5 Reform at Work: Ideas into Action at Coxsackie -- 6 A Conspiracy of Frustration: Coming Home -- PART THREE: THE SLOW DEATH OF PRISON REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1944-1977 -- 7 The Frying Pan and the Fire: The Reformatory in Crisis, 1944-1963 -- 8 Out of Time: Coxsackie and the End of the Reform Idea -- 9 Floodtide: Coxsackie and Post-Reformatory Prison Politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion. The Ghost of Prisons Future -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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