Reform Nation : The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration / Colleen P. Eren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eren, Colleen P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. First Step Act of 2018.

United States.

Imprisonment--United States.

Imprisonment.

Correctional law--United States.

Correctional law.

Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States.

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Law reform--United States.

Law reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

"Colleen P. Eren is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at William Paterson University. She is the author of Bernie Madoff and the Crisis (Stanford, 2017) and co-author (with Robert Costello) of The Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on U.S. Institutions (2021)."--Provided by publisher.

Summary:

"In late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours preceding a government shutdown. It was one of the few major pieces of federal criminal justice reform since the 1970s to move towards reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized United States policy. While it did not amount to revolutionary reform, in Reform Nation Colleen P. Eren investigates it as a symbol for the larger movement's trajectory. Its unlikely passage during a period of political polarization was testament to the power of a new constellation of advocates, stakeholders, and strange bedfellow alliances. These intriguing and complex dynamics are indicative of a longer, twenty-year shift in which the movement became nationalized and mainstreamed. Using in-depth interviews with major players in the national movement, formerly incarcerated activists, celebrities, and donors, this is the first book to turn the mirror back on the criminal justice reform movement itself--the frames used, the voices heard, the capital activated among elite participants, and the bitter controversies. This snapshot in time raises much larger questions about how our democratic processes inform criminal justice policy, and where we are going in the decades to come."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The first step act puzzle

Mainstreamization and the movement

Billionaires, philanthropy, and reform

Celebrity activism in reform

Reform® : corporate social activism

Strange bedfellows

Formerly incarcerated activists, and the future of criminal justice reform.

Notes:

Includes a glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.

Description based on online resource (viewed Dec 4, 2023), publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Eren, Colleen P. Reform nation

ISBN:

9781503636743

1503636747

OCLC:

1386703538