Stateville The Penitentiary in Mass Society

Name: Stateville The Penitentiary in Mass Society
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ISBN: 9780226389776

ISBN-10: 0226389774

ISBN-13: 9780226389776

Edition: 1978 (Reprint)

Authors: James B. Jacobs, Morris Janowitz

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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 Shils's interpretation of the dynamics of mass society in order to explain the dramatic events of…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

James B. Jacobs is Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts, and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice, at New York University School of Law.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Authoritarian Regime



The Search for a Stable Equilibrium, 1925-36



Emergence of Personal Dominance, 1936-61



Challenge to Institutional Authority, 1961-70



The Search for a New Equilibrium



Emergence of a Professional Administration, 1970-75



Intrusion of the Legal System and Interest Groups



Penetration of the Gangs



Transition of the Guard Force



Overview: Restoration and Beyond



Participant Observation among Prisoners



Tables


Notes


Index