Alcatraz the gangster years
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 vi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3128470x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I, Alcatraz from 1934 to 1948. The federal government's war on "public enemies"
- A new form of imprisonment
- Selecting the "worst of the worst"
- The program
- Organized resistance : a regime tested
- Finding a hole in the rock : the first escape attempts
- Alcatraz on trial
- The war years
- The battle of Alcatraz
- Part II, Life on the rock for resisters and public enemies. Resistance and adaptation
- Outlaws among outlaws
- Celebrity prisoners
- Part III, Alcatraz as as experiment in penal policy. Return to the free world
- Lessons from Alcatraz for supermax prisons.
