Coxsackie - The Life and Death of Prison Reform

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph F Spillane, Joseph F. Spillane, Joseph F. (Associate Professor and Assoc Spillane, Joseph F. (Associate Professor and Associate Dean Spillane
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2014
• EAN: 9781421413228
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1322-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Reconfiguring American Political History; Reconfiguring American Political History; Reconfiguring American Politic
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; New York, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Penology and punishment, Prisons