Coxsackie : The Life and Death of Prison Reform /
"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...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The ashes of reform
- Part one. The rapid rise of prison reform in New York, 1929-1944
- The reformer's mural : the liberal penal imagination
- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York
- Part two. Prison lives and the world of the reformatory
- Adolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie
- Against the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie
- Reform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie
- A conspiracy of frustration : coming home
- Part three. The slow death of prison reform in New York, 1944-1977
- The frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963
- Out of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea
- Floodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977
- Conclusion: The ghost of prisons future.