Jonathan Simon. Mass incarceration on trial: a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America

Silvestre, Giane

doi:10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2020.170927

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“…This orientation reverses a core dynamic inherent in the get‐tough movement that sped forward in the last quarter of the 20th century. As Garland (2001) notes, the rejection of “penal‐welfarism” was replaced with an “othering” of offenders, where they were reduced to undifferentiated members of crime categories (see also Simon, 2014). By contrast, victims were “brought into full human focus and given an individual voice” (Garland, 2001, p. 180).…”

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Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?

Hannan

Cullen

Graham

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Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary Washington, DC has implemented second look sentencing. After serving a minimum of 15 years in prison, those convicted of a serious offense committed while under the age of 25 years can petition a judge to take a “second look” and potentially release them from incarceration. To examine both global and specific support for second look sentencing, we embedded experiments in a 2021 MTurk survey and in a follow‐up 2022 YouGov survey. Two key findings emerged. First, regardless of whether a crime was committed under 18 years or under 25 years of age, a majority of the public supported second look sentencing. Opposition to the policy was low, even for petitioners convicted of murder. Second, as revealed by vignette ratings, respondents were more likely to support release when a petitioner “signaled” their reform (e.g., completed a rehabilitation program, received a recommendation from the warden) and had the support of the victim (or their family). Policy Implications The critique of mass imprisonment has broadened from a focus on the level of incarceration to the inordinate length of sentences being served by some prisoners. Policies are being proposed to reconsider these long sentences and to provide opportunities for earned release. Second look sentencing in DC is one of these reforms. Our research suggests that many members of the public believe in a “Shawshank redemption” effect—that those committing serious crimes as a teenager or young adult can mature into a “different person” and warrant a second look, with the possibility of early release if they have earned it. A key issue is likely to be how much weight is accorded to the preference of victims or their families in any release decision.

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Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?

Hannan

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Graham

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Criminology & Public Policy

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“…As Hochschild (2019) observes, when we feel an emotion, we are also appraising a situation, often unconsciously, and that appraisal is based on thought. Emotion can also often precede rational reflection of a given problem or issue, providing the motivation and energising force for action (see, e.g., Simon, 2014).…”

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Radical right populism and the sociology of punishment: Towards a research agenda

Hamilton

2022

Punishment & Society

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The recent populist ‘explosion’ in the US, UK and Europe has pushed radical right populist movements to the centre of western politics. Given criminology's long experience of penal populism in the 1980s and subsequent decades, these developments raise important questions as to the role of sociology of punishment, and the wider discipline of criminology, in responding to far-right populism. This article aims to takes stock of the existing literature on this phenomenon with a view to proposing a tentative criminological research agenda that may contribute to our understanding of the recent rise of authoritarian politics in Europe, the UK and US. While highlighting the continued salience of the emotions in contemporary ‘security populism’, the article cautions against what has been described as a ‘pathologising’ approach to research in this area. Building on this, the paper advances an argument for a criminological research agenda based on a post-dualistic understanding of political affects that seeks to move the analytic focus beyond negativity.

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“…The 2011 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata ruled that California's overcrowded prisons impeded upon the delivery of constitutionally mandated healthcare. The healthcare conditions within California's prisons became so dire that at the height of its overcrowding crisis an average of one prisoner per week died a preventable death (Simon, 2014). As a result of the Plata decision, California would have to undergo a wide-scale decarceration experiment.…”

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“…The scandal exposed by the Plata decision was in the brutal routinization of death in California's prisons (Simon, 2014). Parsons (2012: 34) presents similar instances of dehumanizing treatment.…”

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“…While most state-level analyses have focused on the buildup towards mass incarceration of the late twentieth century, less attention has been given to specific penal practices (Seeds, 2018). Analyses of penal healthcare has been especially scarce save for Fleury-Steiner's (2009) Dying Inside, Simon's (2014) Mass Incarceration on Trial and Sufrin's (2017) Jailcare. This case study compliments and extends this research by demonstrating how contradictory imperatives in coercion, cost, and care has reproduced Arizona's cheap and mean penal regime (Lynch, 2010).…”

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Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime

Strong

2022

Punishment & Society

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Prison healthcare reform and litigation have emerged as critical sites of social and political struggle in early twenty-first century punishment. In the case of Arizona, privatization of its prison healthcare system maintained commitments to cheap and mean punishment in the wake of economic crisis, which led to an ongoing class-action lawsuit over prisoners’ rights violations. By conducting a case study of Arizona's prison healthcare crisis, this article mobilizes important interventions in the theoretical accounts of late mass incarceration and the penal state. Not only did Arizona's brand of penal austerity anticipate the scaling back of social services across the state, but effectively subjected prisoners to a perpetual deferment of care. Drawing upon this sociopolitical context, I elaborate a theory of penal extraction whereby care capacity is not only removed from the prison, but the prisoner's life becomes like an exhaustible resource.

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Jonathan Simon. Mass incarceration on trial: a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America

Abstract: Resenha do livro de Jonathan Simon, Mass incarceration on trial: a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America, Nova York, The New Press, 2014.

Cited by 4 publications

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Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?

Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?

Radical right populism and the sociology of punishment: Towards a research agenda

Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime

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