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The Big House

The Big House

Paperback

Series: Icons of America

CriminologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0300215088
ISBN13: 9780300215083
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Dec 23 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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Criminology