David A. Ward

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years

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Ward has collected the most impressive documentation anywhere on the workings of a prison. A unique and wonderful work of sociology and history.-Howard Becker, author of Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance and Art WorldsThis groundbreaking history of the country's most notorious prison is the first to give an in-depth analysis of the interaction between the guards and the prisoners. Ward captures the Alcatraz experience with the accuracy of someone who has practically been there and lays to rest many of the myths that have grown up around the prison. No longer will the story-tellers be able to describe the inmates as 'the worst of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kassebaum, Gene (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-520-26596-7
EAN: 9780520265967
Produktnummer: 21413317
Verlag: Univ Of California Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 548 S.
Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.6 cm x D4.2 cm 791 g
Gewicht: 791

Über den Autor

David Ward is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the coauthor (with Gene Kassebaum) of Prison Treatment and Parole Survival and coeditor (with Kenneth Schoen) of Confinement in Maximum Custody: New Last-Resort Prisons in the United States and Europe. Ward served as consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary for an investigation at Alcatraz's successor, the Federal Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, and is a member of a consultant group investigating prison gang policies in the California Department of Corrections. Gene Kassebaum is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Hawaii and has also coauthored with Ward, Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure.