Dual justice : America's divergent approaches to street and corporate crime / Anthony Grasso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grasso, Anthony, Author.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society

The Chicago series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Equality before the law--United States.

Equality before the law.

Commercial crimes--United States.

Commercial crimes.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Eugenics--Political aspects--United States.

Eugenics.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

"While America incarcerates its poor and minority citizens at an unparalleled rate, the nation has never developed the capacity to consistently prosecute corporate wrongdoing. This book unearths the intertwined history of these phenomena, revealing that they constitute more than modern hypocrisy. By examining the development of the carceral and regulatory states from 1870 through today, Anthony Grasso shows that America's divergent treatments of street and corporate crime share common and self-reinforcing origins. Their connected roots lie in the Progressive Era, when scholars and lawmakers championed eugenic theories of human difference to justify punitive measures for poor offenders and milder regulatory controls for corporate lawbreakers. These ideas laid the foundation for dual justice systems: criminal justice institutions harshly governing street crime and regulatory institutions governing corporate misconduct. Ever since, the development of the carceral and regulatory states have been related processes that reflect and reinforce common politically constructed understandings about who counts as a criminal. Grasso analyzes intellectual history, policy debates, and institutional change at both the federal and state levels to shed light on how today's racial and class biases have been consolidated across multiple historic eras"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Crime, ideology, and inequality in American politics

Ideological formation : constructing rehabilitative and regulatory ideologies

Entrenching rehabilitation : pathology and punishment in the Progressive Era

Entrenching regulation : crime, politics, and the origins of the regulatory state

The persistence of rehabilitation : criminality, incorrigibility, and twentieth-century politics

The persistence of regulation : regulatory responses to corporate lawbreaking

Reunifying rehabilitative and regulatory ideologies in the twenty-first century

Deconstructing ideology and criminality : possibilities for a different future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index.

ISBN:

9780226829043

0226829049

9780226835594

0226835596

OCLC:

1428040464