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The powers that punish prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 Charles Bright

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Law, meaning, and violencePublisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1996Description: 326 p ill 24 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 0472107321
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.9774 20
LOC classification:
  • HV9475.M52
Other classification:
  • 7,26
  • 15.87
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: Introduction : the prison and its political contexts -- Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson -- Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform -- Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952 -- Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks F (Affiliated) F:HV9475.M52 M533 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-4258

Includes index

Introduction : the prison and its political contexts -- Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson -- Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform -- Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952 -- Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology

Introduction : the prison and its political contexts -- Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson -- Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform -- Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952 -- Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology

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