Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
(Part of the Reconfiguring American Political History Series)
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How progressive good intentions failed at Coxsackie, once a model New York State prison for youth offenders. 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1421413221
ISBN13:9781421413228
Release Date:June 2014
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.7"
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