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Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
Joseph F. Spillane
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Description for Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
Hardback. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal. Series: Reconfiguring American Political History. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve "adolescents adrift," Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face-drugs, gangs, ... Read more
Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve "adolescents adrift," Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face-drugs, gangs, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Reconfiguring American Political History
Condition
New
Weight
570g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413228
SKU
V9781421413228
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About Joseph F. Spillane
Joseph F. Spillane is an associate professor of history at the University of Florida. He is the author of several books, including Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
Damn it's compelling... If you're interested in the historical roots of our prison system, you ought to spend an evening with this book.
Alfred Brophy, UNC School of Law The Faculty Lounge Archival shelves laden with criminal justice records await informed examination. Historian Spillane found a pertinent data set and analyzed it, brilliantly so. Choice Should be required reading ... Read more
Alfred Brophy, UNC School of Law The Faculty Lounge Archival shelves laden with criminal justice records await informed examination. Historian Spillane found a pertinent data set and analyzed it, brilliantly so. Choice Should be required reading ... Read more