Stateville : the penitentiary in mass society /
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Author / Creator: | Jacobs, James B., author. |
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Imprint: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [1977] ©1977 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in crime and justice Studies in crime and justice. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11361203 |
ISBN: | 9780226218830 022621883X 9780226389769 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 7, 2015). |
Summary: | Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be ""the world's toughest prison"" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's conception of imprisonment. In Stateville James B. Jacobs, a sociologist and legal scholar, presents the first historical examination of a total prison organization-administrators, guards, prisoners, and special interest groups. Jacobs applies Edward Shi. |
Other form: | Print version: Jacobs, James B. Stateville : The Penitentiary in Mass Society. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1753 9780226389769 |
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