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

Show other versions (1)
Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bright, Charles, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
Subjects:
Michigan State Prison > History.
Michigan State Prison > Histoire.
Michigan State Prison.
Michigan State Prison
Prisons > Michigan > Jackson > History.
Corrections > Political aspects > Michigan > History.
Prisons > Michigan > Jackson > Histoire.
Services correctionnels > Aspect politique > Michigan > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Politics and government
Prisons
Michigan > Politics and government.
Michigan > Politique et gouvernement.
Michigan
Michigan > Jackson
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items