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The complex and fascinating history of what its like doing time in the Big House, and its influence on the American imagination. The Big House" is Americas idea of the prisona 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 prisonits politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itselfand 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 Americas understanding of itself.

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Author

Stephen D. Cox

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300124194

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Political Science