The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America

Burch, Traci

doi:10.1515/for-2015-0032

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“…Overall, I interpret my results as concurring with the literature on politicization of crime control by the Republican Party since the mid-1960s (Finckenauer, 1978;Jacobs & Jackson, 2010). These findings show an independent nonpunitive Democratic effect and provide qualified support to the claims about the role of progressives in the rise of mass incarceration (Murakawa, 2014;Schept, 2015) that is contingent on partisan competition.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Inter-Party Competition, Public Electoral Pressure, and Democratic Strength: Refining Political Explanations of Incarceration Trends in the U.S., 1980 – 2010

Vasiliev

2021

Criminal Justice Review

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The purpose of this research is to advance the politics of mass imprisonment literature by testing and specifying the macro-explanations of the state-level incarceration change in the United States (U.S.) between 1980 and 2010. Specifically, I account for mechanisms of inter-party competition and public electoral pressure neglected in prior research. To accomplish this goal, I utilize random coefficient models designed to control for repeated annual measures of state-level data that overwhelm traditional analytic techniques. Findings suggest that violent crime, partisan affiliation of state legislators and governors, probation rates, citizen ideology, marijuana decriminalization, and recidivist-focused laws are associated with incarceration as hypothesized, as well as the African American presence net of crime and socioeconomic disadvantage. Contributing to the theoretical debates on democracy and punishment, this paper demonstrates that inter-party competition and public electoral pressure amplify incarceration in the context of Democratic Party dominance, where no liberalizing effects of competition were found. I conclude that legal and extralegal factors are associated with incarceration and suggest that the public did not oppose criminal justice expansion via democratic feedback mechanisms, so both penal populism (Pratt, 2008) and popular punitivism (Campbell et al., 2017) are valid interpretations of imprisonment politics during the analyzed period.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Inter-Party Competition, Public Electoral Pressure, and Democratic Strength: Refining Political Explanations of Incarceration Trends in the U.S., 1980 – 2010

Vasiliev

2021

Criminal Justice Review

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“…In racial minority populations, these coercive institutions pose the most palpable challenge to those at the bottom of the class structure-the poor people in inner-city and inner-ring suburban neighborhoods who are overpoliced and hyperincarcerated (Clegg and Usmani 2019;Forman 2017). They often see the most menacing aspect of the secondface institutions that mete out social control and state violence (Gottschalk 2008;Murakawa 2014). They also experience the most broken parts of American democracy, like long voting lines and underfunded public services.…”

Section: Evidence Methods and Racial And Ethnic Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

Rogers¹,

Kim²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Linked fate, the concept introduced by Dawson almost three decades ago, reoriented the study of racism and political behavior in the United States. The scholarship traditionally had focused on the racial psychology of whites and how racism seeps into their political views and actions. Dawson proposed the Black utility heuristic theory and linked fate, its associated measure, to investigate the political behavior of Blacks, the minority group most harmed by racism. Since then, linked fate has become a ubiquitous variable of interest in research on minority group politics. Yet the research program around linked fate is due for some extension. Most studies gloss over the fact that the Black utility heuristic theory is historically and socially conditional. We call for bringing elite-level agency and group-level social practices back into the literature to clarify the macro- and meso-level conditions under which a group’s racial status translates into linked fate at the individual level. Greater inquiry into these dynamics is not only warranted but also has broad implications for the research on racial and ethnic politics.

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“…Recently, scholars have critiqued the inefficacy of policing in the therapeutic context and suggest increased police training as a solution (McLeod et al, 2020;Vitiello & Moseley, 2021). This approach unfortunately disregards decades of abolitionist scholarship that has shown that attempting to solve harmful policing via training ignores the failed history of past attempts to improve training and only further inscribes the legitimacy and power of police (Hinton, 2017;Murakawa, 2014;Schrader, 2019;Vitale, 2017). When dealing with police presence in the mental health field, assumptions are often made that more training for police who deal with people with mental health concerns results in better outcomes (Richmond & Gibbs, 2020).…”

Section: Policing In a Therapeutic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decentering the use of police: An abolitionist approach to safety planning in psychotherapy.

Drustrup¹,

Kivlighan²,

Ali³

2023

Psychotherapy

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The dominant narrative in much of the world, but especially the West, is that public safety and security are provided by policing. Psychotherapy invests in this dominant narrative via its reliance on emergency services provided by the state, such as 911 and police, to pursue the safety of clients and the larger society. However, the long-documented history of oppressive systems of policing suggest that these dominant narratives operate to protect powerful groups while surveilling and policing marginalized people, but particularly Black and Brown communities. As such, critical and abolitionist movements have rejected the idea that policing provides safety and have sought out alternative methods for ensuring community wellness and safety. Although the field of psychology has broadly expressed interest in growing its critical lens and interrupting systems of power, very little has directly addressed how carceral logics influence psychotherapy practice, and how this influences the client's sense of safety in therapy. This manuscript argues for an abolitionist approach to informed consent and safety planning in psychotherapy to address the disparate ways that clients, and especially marginalized clients such as Black and Brown people, experience psychotherapy's traditional use of systems of policing and state authority. Clinical illustrations are provided and future directions are discussed. Clinical Impact StatementQuestion: This article addresses whether there are alternatives to the way that psychotherapy traditionally centers police and 911 services during informed consent and safety planning. Findings: Clinicians can use the recommendations offered in this article to restructure their informed consent and safety planning procedures to address the disparate experiences of authorities that clients, especially marginalized clients, may have. Meaning: This article offers a new approach to informed consent and safety planning that utilizes abolitionist ideologies and builds a network of personal and community support systems. Next Steps: Future research should empirically investigate this approach as well as seek out other abolitionist approaches to psychotherapy.

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The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America

Cited by 32 publications

References 4 publications

Inter-Party Competition, Public Electoral Pressure, and Democratic Strength: Refining Political Explanations of Incarceration Trends in the U.S., 1980 – 2010

Inter-Party Competition, Public Electoral Pressure, and Democratic Strength: Refining Political Explanations of Incarceration Trends in the U.S., 1980 – 2010

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

Decentering the use of police: An abolitionist approach to safety planning in psychotherapy.

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