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UNINA9910690694103321 |
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Titolo |
Year 2000 computing crisis : actions needed on electronic data exchanges : report to congressional requesters |
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Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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UNINA9910957901703321 |
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Autore |
Cox Stephen D. <1948-> |
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The big house : image and reality of the American prison / / Stephen Cox |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009 |
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1-282-35222-9 |
9786612352225 |
0-300-15495-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Prisons - United States |
Prisoners - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Touring the Institution -- 2. How to Build a Big House -- 3. Your Life as a Convict -- 4. The Art of Humiliation -- 5. Sex -- 6. You Built It, Now Try to Run It -- 7. A Tale of Two Prisons -- 8. Rajahs and Reformers -- 9. Prisons You Can't Tear Down -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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"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, |
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