The Resource The big house : image and reality of the American prison, Stephen Cox
The big house : image and reality of the American prison, Stephen Cox
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The item The big house : image and reality of the American prison, Stephen Cox represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- ""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, mainenance 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"-- from book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 222 p., [22] p. of plates
- Contents
-
- Touring the institution
- How to build a big house
- Your life as a convict
- The art of humiliation
- Sex
- You built it, now try to run it
- A tale of two prisons
- Rajahs and reformers
- Prisons you can't tear down
- Isbn
- 9780300124194
- Label
- The big house : image and reality of the American prison
- Title
- The big house
- Title remainder
- image and reality of the American prison
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Cox
- Title variation
- Image and reality of the American prison
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""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, mainenance 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"-- from book jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cox, Stephen D.
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV9469
- LC item number
- .C69 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Icons of America
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prisons
- Prison administration
- Prisoners
- Corrections
- Label
- The big house : image and reality of the American prison, Stephen Cox
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index
- Contents
- Touring the institution -- How to build a big house -- Your life as a convict -- The art of humiliation -- Sex -- You built it, now try to run it -- A tale of two prisons -- Rajahs and reformers -- Prisons you can't tear down
- Control code
- 313017824
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 222 p., [22] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780300124194
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009008329
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)313017824
- Label
- The big house : image and reality of the American prison, Stephen Cox
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index
- Contents
- Touring the institution -- How to build a big house -- Your life as a convict -- The art of humiliation -- Sex -- You built it, now try to run it -- A tale of two prisons -- Rajahs and reformers -- Prisons you can't tear down
- Control code
- 313017824
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 222 p., [22] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780300124194
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009008329
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)313017824
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