Excessive Punishment : How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration / edited by Lauren-Brooke Eisen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eisen, Lauren-Brooke, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--United States.

Punishment.

Mass incarceration--United States.

Mass incarceration.

Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.

Imprisonment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book brings together essays by scholars, practitioners, activists, and writers, including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, to explore the harms of making punishment the main response to social harm.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Lauren-Brooke Eisen

Part I. A History of Crime and Punitive Response

1. Addressing Violent Crime More Effectively, by David Alan Sklansky

2. Losing Our Punitive Civic Religion, by Jonathan Simon

3. Mass Incarceration and Victim Disregard: Two Sides of the Same Coin, by Lenore Anderson

4. Crime, the Idea, by Emile DeWeaver

Part II. Federal Funding Drives Punitive Justice

5. The Federal Funding That Drives Mass Incarceration, by Lauren-Brooke Eisen

6. The Role of Federal Funding in Improving American Justice, by Ed Chung

Part III. Prosecution and Sentencing

7. The Prosecutor Problem, by Paul Butler

8. The Trial Penalty: Coercive Plea Bargaining, by Martin Sabelli

9. End Mandatory Minimums, by Alison Siegler

10. The American "Punisher's Brain," by Andrew Cohen

11. Punishment Over Prevention: U.S. Drug Policy, by Morgan Godvin

12. Improving Sentencing Policies to Improve Trust and Legitimacy, by Adam Gelb

Part IV. Racism and Punitive Excess

13. How Punitive Excess Is a Manifestation of Racism in America, by Theodore R. Johnson

14. We Must End the Carcerality in Our Own Hearts, by Monica Bell

15. Race, Mass Incarceration, and the Disastrous War on Drugs, by Nkechi Taifa

Part V. Uncovering Life Behind Prison Walls

16. How Atrocious Prison Conditions Make Us All Less Safe, by Shon Hopwood

17. What Did You Call Me?, by Rahsaan "New York" Thomas

18. The Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement, by Christopher Blackwell

19. A Culture of Abuse in Our Nation's Prisons and Jails, by Kathy Foer-Morse

20. Surviving a Daily Storm, by Asia Johnson

21. COVID-19 and the Struggle for Health Behind Bars, by Homer Venters

22. Independent Oversight Is Essential for a Safe and Healthy Prison System, by Michele Deitch.

Part VI. Prison Reform in the United States

23. How Some European Prisons Are Based on Dignity Rather Than Dehumanization, by Ram Subramanian

24. Embracing Dignity: Pennsylvania's Experiment with Scandinavian Correctional Principles, by Steven L. Chanenson, Jordan M. Hyatt, and Synøve N. Andersen

Part VII. Punishment of Young People

25. Treating All Kids as Kids, by Kim Taylor-Thompson

26. Treat Kids Like Kids: The United States Is One of the Only Countries That Gives Life Sentences to Juveniles, by Michael Mendoza

Part VIII. Economic Injustice and Collateral Consequences

27. Monetary Sanctions as a Pound of Flesh, by Alexes Harris

28. Collateral Consequences and the Enduring Nature of Punishment, by Cameron Kimble and Ames Grawert

29. Probation and Parole as Punishment, by Peggy McGarry

30. A Holistic Approach to Legal Advocacy, by Blake Strode

31. The Dehumanizing Work of Immigration Law, by Jennifer M. Chacón

32. Exploring Immigration Collateral Consequences Related to a Criminal Conviction, by Khalil Cumberbatch

Part IX. Beyond Bars: Another World Is Possible

33. Providing Hope and Freedom to Overpunished People: Where Both Seem Impossible to Achieve, by David Singleton

34. Countering Excessive Punishment with Chances for Redemption, by Carlton Miller

35. Educating for Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration, by Karol Mason and Erica Bond

36. Redeeming Punishment in America, by Heather Rice-Minus

37. Criminal Justice Has Been and Must Remain Bipartisan to See Success, by Jason Pye

38. No One Answer to Overpolicing and Mass Incarceration But Many, by Alia Nahra and Hernandez Stroud

Conclusion: The Era of Punitive Excess, by Jeremy Travis and Bruce Western

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780231559249

0231559240

OCLC:

1427664964