From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016)

Hinton, Elizabeth

doi:10.4159/9780674251656-013

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“…Scholars examining the connections between race and the punitive reorientation of the criminal justice system have primarily focused on the United States, an exemplar of the white supremacist carceral state (e.g., Gilmore 2007;Alexander 2010;Brown and Barganier 2018). Yet, race is not just present in these extreme contexts, but is often constitutive of other modalities of the carceral state, including rehabilitation, progressivism, and importantly for our argument, social welfare contexts (Gelsthorpe 2010;Brown 2011;Miller 2014;Kohler-Hausmann 2015;Schept 2015;Hinton 2016). Sweden is one such national context, where the turn to a more US and UK-style of punitive politics has not happened and where the welfare state, while reconfigured, has not disappeared.…”

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confidence: 89%

Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden

Branteryd

Gallo

Brown

et al. 2021

The British Journal of Criminology

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This study explores the role of immigration and racialization in creating the first Swedish victim support centre in the early 1980s. The study is based on a qualitative content analysis of the archives of Victim Support Södertälje, the first lasting Swedish victim support centre, from 1983 to 1990. While many of the centre’s activities focused on crime prevention, it defined crime and victimization as the province of immigrant communities in Södertälje, and, notably, as outside—and aberrant from—the imagined racial community of Sweden. Thus, victim support centres were one of the mechanisms to continue to defend the ideals of the Swedish welfare state, but to do so in ways that prevented incursions within Swedish racial homogeneity from the outside.

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confidence: 89%

Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden

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Gallo

Brown

et al. 2021

The British Journal of Criminology

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“…As Clear and Frost noted in 2014, "the Punishment Imperative, dominant for more than a generation, has now run its course" (p. 159). Now, I have a large shelf of prominent books-from authors in criminology, sociology, political science, history, and public policy-all telling why mass imprisonment gripped the United States (see, e.g., Garland, 2001;Gottschalk, 2006;Hinton, 2016;Kohler-Hausmann, 2017;Pratt, 2009;Simon, 2007;Tonry, 2004). By contrast, books explaining the end of mass incarceration are virtually nonexistent (see, however, Aviram, 2015;Clear & Frost, 2014;Simon, 2014).…”

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The end of American exceptionalism: An enlightened corrections

Cullen

2022

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary The United States is at a turning point in the history of corrections. Suddenly and surprisingly, the era of mass incarceration ended around 2010. Since that time, prison populations, public punitiveness, and get‐tough rhetoric have declined. A challenging question remains, however: Now what? Doing more of the same is foolish but likely. Prison reform is inhibited by the twin realities that states have limited budgets and have existing prisons that are rarely shuttered. New thinking is needed to move beyond these restrictions. One guide for a cognitive shift is Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now in which he argues that sustained improvement in human well‐being in the United States and across the globe is due to the Enlightenment principles of reason, science, humanism, and progress. In this context, an “enlightened corrections” is possible in which policies and practices are evaluated by the four ideals articulated by Pinker. As one example, mass imprisonment is shown to be irrational, unscientific, inhumane, and bereft of a future. By contrast, more promising policies seek to nourish offenders by offering redemption and by using community supervision to build quality relationships that provide a means for targeting risk factors for intervention. Policy Implications The key policy implication is the proposal to place prison reform within the Biden Administration's support for infrastructure improvement. Funded by the federal government, a “Build Back Better Prison Experiment” would be undertaken in which 10 experimental prisons—designed from a clean slate and selected through a competition—would be created and evaluated. The goal is to establish prisons that are rational in their planning, are evidence based, improve offenders’ lives, and foster a new era of progress in American corrections.

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“…Blalock (1967) explains that those who are more politically liberal-minded are less likely to support discrimination against minority groups. Despite bipartisan responsibility for the build-up of the carceral state which has disproportionately targeted Black and Hispanic people (Alexander, 2010; Hinton, 2016; Murakawa, 2014), conservative politics generally tends to favor more punitive responses to crime. Although liberals are more likely to attribute crime to environmental factors and thus advocate for rehabilitation and social reforms, conservatives see crime as a choice and the product of personal responsibility, supporting punitive policies to deter and incapacitate offenders (Jacobs & Carmichael, 2002).…”

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Racial and Gender Threat and the Death Penalty: A County-Level Examination of Sociopolitical Factors Influencing Death Sentences

Schmuhl

Mills

Silva

et al. 2022

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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The death penalty is a local phenomenon with 15% of U.S. counties responsible for passing death sentences since 1976. Although state-level research has contributed a greater understanding of abolition and state-level factors surrounding the death penalty, it remains crucially important to understand the sociopolitical context of counties as key decision-makers in death penalty cases. Findings from our study suggest that both racial and gender threats are important predictors of death sentences within these communities. Specifically, counties with Black populations greater than the state median experience increases in all death sentences, while gender equality in education produces an ameliorative effect on death sentencing. The persistence of extralegal factors, especially racial bias, influencing death sentencing suggests that these relationships be carefully considered in the research and administration of capital sentencing.

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016)

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Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden

Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden

The end of American exceptionalism: An enlightened corrections

Racial and Gender Threat and the Death Penalty: A County-Level Examination of Sociopolitical Factors Influencing Death Sentences

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