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The big house : image and reality of the American prison by Stephen Cox (editor); Mark Crispin Miller (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The big house : image and reality of the American prison about?
The Big House" is America’s 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 America’s understanding of itself.
Who reads The big house : image and reality of the American prison?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Cox (editor); Mark Crispin Miller (editor)
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282352223
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Social_sciences
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