Vivien M. L. Miller - Crime, sexual violence, and clemency: Floridas pardon board and penal system in the Progressive Era

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Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency

New Perspectives on the History of the South

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The New Perspectives on the History of the South series provides a forum for the best new scholarship on the ever-changing South. The series emphasizes books that focus on the region s social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history, especially with an interdisciplinary emphasis. The goal of the series is to ask fresh questions and to provide stimulating answers, arguments that in turn add to the ongoing dialogue of historical analysis about that ever-fascinating land, the American South.

EDITED BY JOHN DAVID SMITH

In the Country of the Enemy: The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts Corporal, edited by William C Harris (1999)
The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Margaret L Brown (2000) Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Floridas Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era, by Vivien M L Miller (2000).

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Floridas Pardon Board and Penal System
in the Progressive Era

Vivien M. L. Miller

Foreword by John David Smith, Series Editor

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Copyright 2000 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Miller, Vivien M. L.

Crime, sexual violence, and clemency: Floridas pardon board and penal
system in the Progressive Era / Vivien M. L. Miller; foreword by John
David Smith.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8130-1808-0 (alk. paper)
. Prisons Florida History.. Prisoners Government policy
Florida History.. Prison administration Florida History.
. Parole Florida History.. Criminal justice, Administration of
Florida History.. Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Florida History.. Florida Race relations.. Florida Social policy.
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HV 9475 .F6 M 2000
'. 9759 dc 00-034413

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1. Palm Beach County execution, circa 1914

2. The Cabinet, 19131917

3. The Cabinet, 1902

4. Moving panopticon, 1912

5. David Lang

6. State prisoners building roads during the Trammell administration, 19131917

7. William C. Hodges

8. Convict laborers engaging in turpentine production, circa 1910

9. Convicts leased to lumber contractors, circa 1910

10. Convict driving a wagonload of distilled turpentine, 1910s

11. The state prison farm at Raiford in Bradford County

12. Benjamin E. McLin, 1907

13. William A. MacRae

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