Stateville: the Penitentiary in Mass Society

✍ Scribed by James B Jacobs

• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Studies in crime and justice
• Category: Fiction
• City: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• ISBN: 0226389774

✦ Synopsis

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. Jacob.;Foreword by Morris Janowitz -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Authoritarian Regime -- 1. The Search for a Stable Equilibrium, 1925-36 -- 2. Emergence of Personal Dominance, 1936-61 -- 3. Challenge to Institutional Authority, 1961-70 -- Part II. The Search for a New Equilibrium -- 4. Emergence of a Professional Administration, 1970-75 -- 5. Intrusion of the Legal System and Interest Groups -- 6. Penetration of the Gangs -- 7. Transition of the Guard Force -- 8. Overview: Restoration and Beyond -- Appendix 1: Participant Observation among Prisoners.

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