All Outputs (3)

Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South (2019)
Book Chapter
Miller, V. (2019). Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South. In A. L. Wood, & N. J. Ring (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois Press

This chapter focuses on the transition from hanging to electrical execution in Florida and the changing role of the sheriff as executioner in the 1920s.

Reflections on the chain gang and prison narratives from the Southern United States (2016)
Book Chapter
Miller, V. (2016). Reflections on the chain gang and prison narratives from the Southern United States. In D. Nash, & A. Kilday (Eds.), Law, crime and deviance since 1700: microstudies in the history of crimeBloomsbury Publishing

“A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia” (2014)
Book Chapter
MILLER, V. (2015). “A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia”. In Transnational penal cultures: new perspectives on discipline, punishment and desistance. Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter provides a brief overview of George Kennan's critique of prison conditions in late nineteenth-century Siberia, examines the nascent leasing system in Florida in the 1870s and 1880s described by Powell, of vermin-infested convicts in comm... Read More about “A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia”.