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David A. Ward

Alcatraz

The Gangster Years

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Al Capone, George Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, Dock Barker-these were just a few of the legendary public enemies for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of The Rock. Alcatraz is the only book with authoritati… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-520-94298-1
  • EAN: 9780520942981
  • Produktnummer: 21596164
  • Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 584 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'979 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

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.

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