The powers that punish prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 / Charles Bright.
| Author/creator | Bright, Charles, 1943- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, |
| Description | 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | 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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 96009954 |
| ISBN | 0472107321 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | ebook |