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The Powers that Punish : Prison and Politics in the Era of the
The Powers that Punish Prison and Politics in the Era of the Big House 19201955 - Law, Meaning, and Violence
Author: Charles Bright
In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a carceral regime was organized and maintained, how...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780472107322
ISBN-10: 0472107321
Publication Date: 10/1/1996
Pages: 336
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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