An Evaluation of the Administration of the Educational Program at San Quentin Prison
Author : Thomas Alfred Blakely
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Prisoners
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Author : Thomas Alfred Blakely
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Prisoners
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Author : Bonnie L. Petry
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0893704369
The coming of statehood to California in 1850 forced the authorities to face one immediately pressing issue: what to do with the many convicts who were pouring forth from the local county courtrooms in the wake of the great Gold Rush of 1848-49. Lawlessness was everywhere rampant, and something had to be done immediately. The answer was found in establishing the first state prison at Quentin Point in Marin County, soon to be called San Quentin. Librarians Bonnie Petry and Michael Burgess have here gathered together several key documents dealing with the earliest years of the prison, including James Harold Wilkins' seminal work, "The Evolution of a State Prison," together with a list of early convict names, a bibliography of "San Quentiniana" (publications by the convicts themselves) by Herman K. Spector, and a new annotated bibliography of nonfiction resources about the prison compiled by Ms. Petry. Complete with Introduction and Index.
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Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Monographic series
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Author : United States. Division of Vocational Education
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Vocational education
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Author : United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Distributive education
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Author : Eric Smoodin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822386267
In this innovative historical examination of the American movie audience, Eric Smoodin focuses on reactions to the films of Frank Capra. Best known for his Hollywood features—including It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—Capra also directed educational films, military films, and documentaries. Based on his analysis of the reception of a broad range of Capra’s films, Smoodin considers the preferences and attitudes toward Hollywood of the people who watched movies during the “Golden Age” of studio production, from 1930 to 1960. Drawing on archival sources including fan letters, exhibitor reports, military and prison records, government and corporate documents, and trade journals, Smoodin explains how the venues where Capra’s films were seen and the strategies used to promote the films affected audience response and how, in turn, audience response shaped film production. He analyzes issues of foreign censorship and government intervention in the making of The Bitter Tea of General Yen; the response of high school students to It Happened One Night; fan engagement with the overtly political discourse of Meet John Doe and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; San Quentin prisoners’ reaction to a special screening of It’s a Wonderful Life; and at&t’s involvement in Capra’s later documentary work for the Bell Science Series. He also looks at the reception of Capra’s series Why We Fight, used by the American military to train recruits and re-educate German prisoners of war. Illuminating the role of the famous director and his films in American culture, Regarding Frank Capra signals new directions for significant research on film reception and promotion.
Author : Gertrude G. Blaker
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Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Cookery
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Author : United States. Division of Vocational Education
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Monographic series
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Author : Andrew J Dick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137564695
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically pre-conceived, which means that the nature of the evidence collected is also preconceived. As a result, key assumptions about outcomes are often wished away to show improvement and be accountable. Through a detailed analysis interspersed with stories from the authors’ experiences “behind the wall” among California’s prison population, the authors challenge the nature of evidence-based research as used in the prison environment. In the process they describe the thorny problems facing reformers.
Author : University of California (1868-1952)
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Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Universities and colleges
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