Vivien M L Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 5839906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivien M L Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivien M L |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER V M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hard Labor and Hard Time
During the first half of the 20th century, Florida prisoners were divided into two categories: Grade 1 prisoners were sent to the chain gangs to build the roads and highways that brought settlers and tourists to the state, and Grade 2 prisoners were sent to the state prison farm near Raiford. The farm began as a temporary stockade in November 1913 but expanded dramatically in the 1920s and 1930s as permanent structures including factories and an …
Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency
From 1889 to 1918, more than 11,000 persons were convicted and sentenced to the hard labour camps of Florida's piney woods region. Vivien Miller presents the first intensive examination of the workings of Florida's pardon board and penal system during this period, often called the Progressive Era. Where most previous works on southern crime and criminal justice have focused on the arrest, trial and sentencing stages, Miller instead follows cultur…
Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency
Vivien M. L. Miller's tudy of the activities of Florida's Pardon Board during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveals that the quality of mercy can indeed be constrained. The board, members of the governor's cabinet who were successful southern gentlemen, granted or withheld mercy according to standards of respectability, which depended on the petitioner's class, race, and gender. Florida did not have a parole system until the 1…
Reinventing the penitentiary
This study of the origins and development of Florida's state prison system, and the shift from the penitentiary to convict leasing in the 1880s, examines the relationship between penal practice in one Southern state and Foucault's conception of penal modernity, and the connections between race and gender and leasing. It argues that convict leasing which emerged from the failure of the penitentiary in Florida, reflects the continuity of an older m…
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Reinventing the penitentiary
This study of the origins and development of Florida's state prison system, and the shift from the penitentiary to convict leasing in the 1880s, examines the relationship between penal practice in one Southern state and Foucault's conception of penal modernity, and the connections between race and gender and leasing. It argues that convict leasing which emerged from the failure of the penitentiary in Florida, reflects the continuity of an older m…
Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency
From 1889 to 1918, more than 11,000 persons were convicted and sentenced to the hard labour camps of Florida's piney woods region. Vivien Miller presents the first intensive examination of the workings of Florida's pardon board and penal system during this period, often called the Progressive Era. Where most previous works on southern crime and criminal justice have focused on the arrest, trial and sentencing stages, Miller instead follows cultur…
Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency
Vivien M. L. Miller's tudy of the activities of Florida's Pardon Board during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveals that the quality of mercy can indeed be constrained. The board, members of the governor's cabinet who were successful southern gentlemen, granted or withheld mercy according to standards of respectability, which depended on the petitioner's class, race, and gender. Florida did not have a parole system until the 1…
Hard Labor and Hard Time
During the first half of the 20th century, Florida prisoners were divided into two categories: Grade 1 prisoners were sent to the chain gangs to build the roads and highways that brought settlers and tourists to the state, and Grade 2 prisoners were sent to the state prison farm near Raiford. The farm began as a temporary stockade in November 1913 but expanded dramatically in the 1920s and 1930s as permanent structures including factories and an …
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Convict (2 works) · Prison (2 works)