02917nam 2200661Ia 450 991095790170332120251117073754.01-282-35222-997866123522250-300-15495-X10.12987/9780300154955(CKB)2430000000010732(EBL)3420475(SSID)ssj0000289956(PQKBManifestationID)11221661(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289956(PQKBWorkID)10403113(PQKB)11160018(DE-B1597)485010(OCoLC)816341667(DE-B1597)9780300154955(Au-PeEL)EBL3420475(CaPaEBR)ebr10343522(CaONFJC)MIL235222(OCoLC)923593188(MiAaPQ)EBC3420475(OCoLC)816341667(EXLCZ)99243000000001073220090225d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe big house image and reality of the American prison /Stephen Cox1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (255 p.)Icons of americaDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-12419-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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, its violence, its inability to control itself-and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them­: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the "Big House" has attained in America's understanding of itself.Icons of America.PrisonsUnited StatesPrisonersUnited StatesPrisonsPrisoners365/.973Cox Stephen D.1948-697039MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957901703321The big house4529582UNINA