Open AccessBook
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The early origins of the carceral state, 1920s-60s, 1970s-1990s, and the power to punish: the political development of capital punishment, 1972 to today as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
1. The prison and the gallows: the construction of the carceral state in America 2. Law, order, and alternative explanations 3. Unlocking the past: the nationalization and politicization of law and order 4. The carceral state and the welfare state: the comparative politics of victims 5. Not the usual suspects: feminists, women's groups, and the anti-rape movement 6. The battered women's movement and the development of penal policy 7. From rights to revolution: prison activism and penal policy 8. Capital punishment, the courts, and the early origins of the carceral state, 1920s-60s 9. The power to punish: the political development of capital punishment, 1972 to today 10. Conclusion: whither the carceral state.read more
Citations
More filters
BookDOI
The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences
TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
Journal ArticleDOI
Militarized humanitarianism meets carceral feminism: the politics of sex, rights, and freedom in contemporary antitrafficking campaigns.
TL;DR: It is argued that the alliance that has been so efficacious in framing contemporary antitrafficking politics is the product of two historically unique and intersecting trends: a rightward shift on the part of many mainstream feminists and other secular liberals away from a redistributive model of justice and toward a politics of incarceration, coincident with a leftward sweep on the parts of many younger evangelicals toward a globally oriented social justice theology.
Journal ArticleDOI
Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women: Resurrecting "Patriarchy" as a Theoretical Tool
TL;DR: The author addresses some of the criticisms of the theory of patriarchy, uncovers the explanatory strengths of this concept, and lays some foundations for a more fully developed theory of violence against women.
Journal ArticleDOI
Political Consequences of the Carceral State
Vesla M. Weaver,Amy E. Lerman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that interactions with criminal justice are an important source of political socialization, in which the lessons that are imprinted are antagonistic to democratic participation and inspire negative orientations toward government.
Book
The Crime Drop in America
Blumstein,Wallman +1 more
TL;DR: The recent rise and fall of American violence has been discussed in this paper, where the authors present an economic model of recent trends in violence in the US, including the rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
TL;DR: This paper explored the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color and found that the experiences of women of colour are often the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourse of either feminism or antiracism.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
TL;DR: The authors discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women.
Journal ArticleDOI
From Mobilization to Revolution.
J. Craig Jenkins,Charles Tilly +1 more
TL;DR: The recent fallecimiento del sociólogo e historiador Charles Tilly (Lombard, Illinois, 1929-Bronx, Nueva York, 2008) puede servir de pretexto for rememorar una trayectoria investigadora sin duda excepcional, plasmada a lo largo de medio siglo en más de 600 artículos and 51 libros and monografías, that le convirtieron en el más influyente especialista
Book
From mobilization to revolution
TL;DR: In the offensive case, a group pools resources in response to opportunities to realize its interests as discussed by the authors, which is the most top-down form of mobilization, whereas in the preventive case, the group pool resources in anticipation of future opportunities and threats.
Book
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
TL;DR: A history of modern criminal justice and the Penal-Welfare state can be found in this paper, with a focus on the culture of high crime and the New Culture of Crime Control.