Coxsackie : The Life and Death of Prison Reform / / Joseph F. Spillane

• Autore: Spillane Joseph F
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2014]; ©[2014]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 pages)
• Disciplina: 365/.974737
• Soggetto topico: Prisoners - New York (State) - Coxsackie; Prisons - New York (State) - Coxsackie
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.N
• Nota di contenuto: The reformer's mural -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York -- Adolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie -- Against the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie -- Reform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie -- A conspiracy of frustration : coming home -- The frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963 -- Out of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea -- Floodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion : the ghost of prisons future.
• Sommario/riassunto: This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coxsackie
• ISBN: 1-4214-1323-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524892403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Reconfiguring American political history.