Stateville : the penitentiary in mass society /

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Author / Creator:Jacobs, James B., author.
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.
Subject:Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.)
Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.)
Mass society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Mass society.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11361203
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ISBN:9780226218830
022621883X
9780226389769
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