Punishments, Politics, and Prisons in Western Countries

Tonry, Michael

doi:10.1086/721278

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“…Laub and Sampson's (2003) endorsement of Becker's (1964) emphasis on shaping macro-level characteristics to "coerce people into behaving as we want them to", seemingly with or without their consent, and with no interest in developing "deep and lasting interests" of the person (pp. 52-53) seems far more deterministic and far less humanistic than the emphasis in non-American jurisdictions that social service interventions help reduce inequalities (e.g., Brickman & Fristad, 2022;Lappi-Seppälä & Tonry, 2011;Tonry, 2022). The revised age-graded theory assumes that desistance is unintentional and occurs without any change to the individual (Paternoster et al, 2015;Thomas et al, 2022).…”

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Twenty years in the making: Revisiting Laub and Sampson's version of life-course criminology

McCuish,

Lussier

2023

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Purpose: Using data on participants born around 100 years ago, Laub and Sampson asserted that early developmental risk factors are not informative of social outcomes in adulthood. More specifically, they claimed that early risk factors were not informative of adulthood informal social control, persistent offending, and the degree to which informal social control protects against later offending. We offer a contemporary comparison point to these claims that carry theoretical implications for developmental and life-course criminology. Methods:The current study used prospective longitudinal data on 518 male and female participants from the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study. Early developmental risk for persistent offending was measured via the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV). Informal social control was measured in emerging adulthood via the Community Risk Needs Assessment (CRNA). Offending trajectories were measured for an average of 15 years following participants' CRNA ratings.Results: PCL:YV scores were negatively associated with informal social control (selection effects), positively associated with persistent offending, and negatively related to lower rates of offending, even when informal social control was high (treatment effect heterogeneity). Conclusions: Findings align with Elder's conceptualization of life-course theory that acknowledges the potential for individual, social, and macro-level factors to shape human development.

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Twenty years in the making: Revisiting Laub and Sampson's version of life-course criminology

McCuish,

Lussier

2023

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“…There is some debate as to whether adversarial legalism may be expected to increase in European legal systems (see e.g., Kagan, 2006;Kelemen, 2008). Tonry (2022) has pointed out that incarceration rates are significantly higher and lengths of prison sentences are significantly longer in the U.S. than in most countries in Europe. However, Kugler et al (2013) compared punitiveness across samples of people from three countries (the U.S., Canada, and Germany) and found that Americans were only slightly more punitive than Germans, although they generally were not significantly different from Canadians.…”

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Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries

Cohn,

Coccia,

Kakar

2023

Sociology Compass

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While the relationship between immigration and crime has been the focus of international research, particularly in Europe and North America, less attention has been paid to different rates of incarceration of foreign citizens between countries. Using data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on persons held in prison between 2015 and 2019, this study examines the impact of nationality on incarceration rates. The principal findings suggest, in most European countries, a significantly higher rate of foreign citizens held in prison compared to non‐immigrants. Conversely, the four Anglo‐Saxon countries studied here (Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States of America) did not demonstrate such a high rate of disparity compared to non‐immigrants. These results suggest the need to further identify the sociocultural and institutional factors that generate these differences between countries in order to develop equitable criminal justice systems across European and Anglo‐Saxon countries.

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Queer Approaches to Understanding Women’s Punishment Experiences in Cyprus

Vasiliou

2024

Geographies of Gendered Punishment

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Punishments, Politics, and Prisons in Western Countries

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

Twenty years in the making: Revisiting Laub and Sampson's version of life-course criminology

Twenty years in the making: Revisiting Laub and Sampson's version of life-course criminology

Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries

Queer Approaches to Understanding Women’s Punishment Experiences in Cyprus

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