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The big house : image and reality of the American prison /
""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its viole...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Icons of America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Touring the institution
- How to build a big house
- Your life as a convict
- The art of humiliation
- Sex
- You built it, now try to run it
- A tale of two prisons
- Rajahs and reformers
- Prisons you can't tear down.