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

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations Series Law, meaning, and violence Law, meaning, and violence. 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 Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Michigan State Prison -- History SUBJECT Michigan State Prison fast Subject Prisons -- Michigan -- Jackson -- History Corrections -- Political aspects -- Michigan -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Politics and government Prisons SUBJECT Michigan -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084702 Subject Michigan Michigan -- Jackson Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780472023110 047202311X 1282604635 9781282604636 9786612604638 6612604638

  Permalink