Penitentiaries Reformatories And Chain Gangs

Author : Mark Colvin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312173272
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs written by Mark Colvin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definition of punishment in America has been subjected to a variety of changes and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of U.S. history. Just how far the reach of penal authority should extend, and exactly what limits to it should be imposed, are questions explored here by sociologist Dr. Mark Colvin, who has extensive experience working in penitentiaries and correction agencies.

Author : M. Colvin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299265
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs written by M. Colvin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-08-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very definition of punishment in America has been subject to a variety of changes, and has served as the basis for much debate over the course of America's history. In Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs , Mark Colvin tackles the subject of penal change in America by examining three case studies which represent shifts in the interpretation of punishment specifically during the nineteenth century: the rise of penitentiaries in the Northeast; the changes in the treatment of women offenders in the North; and the transformation of punishment in the South after the Civil War. Colvin uses these case studies to apply four theoretical explanations of penal change, shedding light on both the history of penal authority and the current state of the system today. An engrossing and highly relevant volume, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, Chain Gangs is a comprehensive investigation of punishment and its meaning past and present.

Author : Vivien M.L. Miller
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813043522
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Labor and Hard Time written by Vivien M.L. Miller and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Labor and Hard Time is a history of continuity and change in Florida's state prison system between 1910 and 1957, exploring conditions at the state prison farm at Raiford (the third largest prison farm in the South at this time) as well as in the chain gangs and road prisons. Vivien Miller examines the experiences of the prisoners as well as the guards and other prison personnel in this comprehensive, groundbreaking study. She demonstrates that despite progressive changes in the treatment of inmates (better diet, better structuring of work and leisure activities, better medical provision, and the like), these improvements were matched by continued brutality and mistreatment, unequal or discriminatory treatment according to race and/or gender, and neglect.

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Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Delinquent written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Perkinson
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429952774
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Tough written by Robert Perkinson and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.

Author : Chad R. Trulson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477308458
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Causes written by Chad R. Trulson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through “determinate sentencing,” a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they are either transferred to the Texas prison system to serve the remainder of their original determinate sentence or released from TYC into Texas’s communities. The first long-term study of determinate sentencing in Texas, Lost Causes examines the social and delinquent histories, institutionalization experiences, and release and recidivism outcomes of more than 3,000 serious and violent juvenile offenders who received such sentences between 1987 and 2011. The authors seek to understand the process, outcomes, and consequences of determinate sentencing, which gave serious and violent juvenile offenders one more chance to redeem themselves or to solidify their place as the next generation of adult prisoners in Texas. The book’s findings—that about 70 percent of offenders are released to the community during their most crime-prone years instead of being transferred to the Texas prison system and that about half of those released continue to reoffend for serious crimes—make Lost Causes crucial reading for all students and practitioners of juvenile and criminal justice.

Author : Vincent Godfrey Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man who Broke a Thousand Chains written by Vincent Godfrey Burns and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Robert Eliot Burns, including his arrest for theft, his sentencing to work on a prison chain gang and his subsequent escape. His story inspired the movie " I am a fugitive from a chain gang" and led to the abolishment of the chain gang system.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners, 1923 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents in the United States 1910 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Prisoners, 1923 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: