The long struggle: An agonistic perspective on penal development

Goodman, Philip; Page, Joshua; Phelps, Michelle S.

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“…For example, a growing body of scholarship shows that aggressive policing adversely affects the health and well-being of targeted individuals and communities (Beckett & Herbert 2010, Geller et al 2014, Lerman & Weaver 2014, Rios 2011. Research further shows that criminal justice contact and surveillance shape residents' everyday lives, including the routes by which they travel, the institutions they access (or avoid), and the balance of power in their personal relationships (Brayne 2014, Flores 2016, Goffman 2014, Lara-Millan 2014, Lerman & Weaver 2014, Stuart 2016. For example, Lara-Millan (2014) shows that the presence of police officers in hospital emergency rooms induces many of those seeking medical care to leave the hospital without receiving treatment, a pattern that may reproduce health inequalities over time.…”

Section: Conceptualizing the Problem: From Mass Incarceration To The mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many studies analyze mass incarceration's racial origins and/or disparate impact on communities of color (Alexander 2010, Beckett 1997, Lee et al 2015, Pettit & Western 2004, Provine 2007, Tonry 2011, Weaver 2007. Others assess how penal expansion affects not only the incarcerated but also those who are stopped, frisked, arrested, fined, and surveilled, even in the absence of incarceration or conviction (Beckett & Murakawa 2012;Brayne 2014;Goffman 2014;Greenberg et al 2016;Harris 2016;Kohler-Hausmann 2013Napatoff 2015;Rios 2011;Stuart et al 2015). Still others analyze how mass incarceration affects family and community members of the justice-involved (Comfort 2007;Clear 2007;Lee et al 2014Lee et al , 2015Sykes & Pettit 2014;Wakefield & Wildeman 2013;Wakefield et al 2016;Wildeman & Western 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration

Beckett

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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Mass incarceration is an unprecedented development, one with myriad adverse consequences. Although the expansion of US penal institutions is largely a function of changes in practice and policy rather than rising crime rates, reversing this trend will nonetheless be challenging. The need for comprehensive sentencing reform is clear, but political limits on legislative remedies and the failure of the courts to notably reduce the scale, or improve conditions, of confinement render these approaches highly uncertain. In the short term, unconventional methods that do not require legislative authorization, such as electing, pressuring, and incentivizing prosecutors to reduce penal severity, may be a promising way of addressing mass incarceration. The return and revitalization of parole or other systems of post-sentence review are also crucial and may be legitimated in terms of the need to incentivize rehabilitation and prevent the unnecessary and costly incarceration of the elderly. The recent mobilization of grass-roots movements for penal change that include those directly affected by both violence and mass incarceration is also auspicious, as their work may help to humanize the justice-involved and undermine the erroneous assumption that crime survivors are well-served by mass incarceration. 235

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Section: Conceptualizing the Problem: From Mass Incarceration To The mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration

Beckett

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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“…In this direction, we follow here the propositions that recently have been made by numerous contemporary authors in the sociology of punishment (Beckett 1997;Beckett and Sasson 2001;Cavadino and Dignam 2011;Feeley 2003;Goodman, Page and Phelps 2014;Gottschalk 2006;O'Malley 1999;Sasson 2000;Scheingold 1991;Simon 2007;Simon and Feeley 2003;Sparks 2003aSparks , 2003bPavarini 2006). Of course there exists the danger of falling in a 'voluntarist' extreme.…”

Section: Politics and Penaltymentioning

confidence: 82%

“…But there certainly have been other significant efforts, such as the work of Wacquant which I have made reference to here. However, these connections are often postulated in a way that fails to fully address 'how' these different structural transformations are effectively connected with the decisions and actions that occur in the penal field (Goodman, Page and Phelps 2014;Matthews 2005;Nelken 2010b; O'Malley 2004a).…”

Section: Politics and Penaltymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This does not mean that these are the only actors who play a relevant role in these conflicts about the power to punish, which determine how much and how pain should be intentionally inflicted on whom, and why (Christie 1982). As has been already pointed out, the very agents of the penal field -judges, prosecutors, police, prison guards and directors, and so on -play a central role, with their ways of thinking and acting to a large degree moulding the penal results Dignam 2006, 2011;Goodman, Page and Phelps 2014;Nelken 2010aNelken , 2010b. These actors and their strategies appear with varying degrees of intensity in the different studies included in this special issue, but there is no doubt that there is need for a wider range of explorations about this dimension of the very same national cases to be further developed in the future.…”

Section: Politics and Penaltymentioning

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Postneoliberalism and Penality in South America: By Way of Introduction

Sozzo

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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In the last two decades, there has been an extraordinary growth in incarceration rates in South America, with some variations across national contexts but generally in line with the same trend. Twenty years ago, incarceration rates were relatively low in most countries in the region; despite that knowledge, it has proved difficult to reconstruct the official data for that period. In 1992, with the exclusion of the small countries with less than one million inhabitants in the Northern region of South America such as Guyana, French Guyana and Surinam, only three countries had 100 prisoners or more per 100,000 inhabitants: Uruguay (100), Venezuela (133) and Chile (154) (see Figure 1). Several other national contexts reflected ‘Scandinavian’ rates, such as Argentina (62), Peru (69), Ecuador (75) and Brazil (74). Download the PDF file to continue with this introduction to the articles in the dossier within this issue of the journal.

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Irwin:The Jail

Shammas

2017

The Encyclopedia of Corrections

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In the United States, the jail population totaled around 700,000 persons per day by the early 2010s, and an annual total of nearly 12 million detainees were confined across more than 3,000 facilities. In The Jail , published in 1985, John Irwin scrutinizes the American system of pretrial detention and short‐term internment. Arguing that jails are imbued with greater “pains of imprisonment” than traditional penitentiaries because of a distinct lack of emphasis on rehabilitative procedures, Irwin contends that these liminal holding facilities produce four stages of mortification as citizens pass through their gates. The jail causes psychic disintegration and disorientation of lower‐class citizens drawn from deteriorating urban quarters, and the jail degrades and prepares marginalized populations for a continued existence at the bottom tiers of the social order. Far from protecting the public from predatory and dangerous offenders, Irwin argues, jails are instead filled with non‐serious offenders whose primary crime is that they are offensive to public sensibilities.

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The long struggle: An agonistic perspective on penal development

Cited by 102 publications

References 42 publications

The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration

The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration

Postneoliberalism and Penality in South America: By Way of Introduction

Irwin:The Jail

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