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The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison (Icons of America)
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| #2131588 in Books | 2009-11-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .93 x5.82 x8.36l,.88 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||4 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| The Big House -- A Fascinating Piece of American History|By Judy Gail Krasnow|The Big House" is a fascinating read about another of America's "contributions" to the world -- huge penitentiaries. Stephen Cox's highly readable book for anyone (layman or academic) takes us on a journey of the origin, development, and growth of huge prisons. The latter are like huge towns, cities,|From Publishers Weekly|In this sociological history of American penology, historian Cox describes the Big House era when state and federal prisons were sprawling structures that housed thousands of convicts. Simultaneously fearsome and awe inspiring, these dark
The Big House" is America’s idea of the prisona 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 prisonits politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itselfand its idealization in American p...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison (Icons of America) | Stephen Cox.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
