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Full-Text Articles in Law
Discipline Or Destiny: A School-To-Prison Pipeline Story, Trayonna Hendricks, Kourtney Webb
Discipline Or Destiny: A School-To-Prison Pipeline Story, Trayonna Hendricks, Kourtney Webb
Capstones
The school-to-prison pipeline is a phenomenon by which students, mainly students of color, are pushed out of schools and into juvenile detention centers and through the criminal justice system. This documentary series explains and displays what "the school-to-prison pipeline looks like through a personal story.
https://readymag.com/u1985351703/1646028/
The Prison-Televisual Complex, Allison Page, Laurie Ouellette
The Prison-Televisual Complex, Allison Page, Laurie Ouellette
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
In 2016, the A&E cable network partnered with the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to incarcerate seven volunteers as undercover prisoners for two months. This article takes the reality television franchise 60 Days In as a case study for analyzing the convergence of prison and television, and the rise of what we call the prison-televisual complex in the United States, which denotes the imbrication of the prison system with the television industry, not simply television as an ideological apparatus. 60 Days In represents an entanglement between punishment and the culture industries, whereby carceral logics flow into the business and …
The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, And Mass Incarceration, Michele Goodwin
The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, And Mass Incarceration, Michele Goodwin
Cornell Law Review
Slavery's preservation in the United State can-in part-be explained by its fluid transformations, which continuously exacted economic gains, preserved southern social order, and inured benefits to private parties as well as the state. These transformations did not outpace law. Rather, the rule of law in the south and lawlessness among local law enforcement frequently accommodated these transformations and innovations. Historically, efforts to stamp out the myriad forms of slavery-convict leasing, peonage, contract transfers, so-called "apprenticeships," and chain gangs-frequently fell short because of local collusion and complicity, weak federal interventions and protections, and violence. The specter of lynching, which included the …
Disrupting The Androcentric Prison System, Amber Hanke
Disrupting The Androcentric Prison System, Amber Hanke
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
No abstract provided.
Freedom And Prison: Putting Structuralism Back Into Structural Inequality, Anders Walker
Freedom And Prison: Putting Structuralism Back Into Structural Inequality, Anders Walker
All Faculty Scholarship
Critics of structural racism frequently miss structuralism as a field of historical inquiry. This essay reviews the rise of structuralism as a mode of historical analysis and applies it to the mass incarceration debate in the United States, arguing that it enriches the work of prevailing scholars in the field.
Note: Decarceration In A Mass Incarceration State: The Road To Prison Abolition, Robert H. Ambrose
Note: Decarceration In A Mass Incarceration State: The Road To Prison Abolition, Robert H. Ambrose
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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Mens Rea Reform And Its Discontents, Benjamin Levin
Mens Rea Reform And Its Discontents, Benjamin Levin
Publications
This Article examines the debates over recent proposals for “mens rea reform.” The substantive criminal law has expanded dramatically, and legislators have criminalized a great deal of common conduct. Often, new criminal laws do not require that defendants know they are acting unlawfully. Mens rea reform proposals seek to address the problems of overcriminalization and unintentional offending by increasing the burden on prosecutors to prove a defendant’s culpable mental state. These proposals have been a staple of conservative-backed bills on criminal justice reform. Many on the left remain skeptical of mens rea reform and view it as a deregulatory vehicle …
In Fear We Trust: Anxious Political Rhetoric & The Politics Of Punishment, 1960s-80s, Stella Michelle Frank
In Fear We Trust: Anxious Political Rhetoric & The Politics Of Punishment, 1960s-80s, Stella Michelle Frank
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Mass Incarceration Paradigm Shift?: Convergence In An Age Of Divergence, Mugambi Jouet
Mass Incarceration Paradigm Shift?: Convergence In An Age Of Divergence, Mugambi Jouet
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
The peculiar harshness of modern American justice has led to a vigorous scholarly debate about the roots of mass incarceration and its divergence from humanitarian sentencing norms prevalent in other Western democracies. Even though the United States reached virtually world-record imprisonment levels between 1983 and 2010, the Supreme Court never found a prison term to be “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. By countenancing extreme punishments with no equivalent elsewhere in the West, such as life sentences for petty recidivists, the Justices’ reasoning came to exemplify the exceptional nature of American justice. Many scholars concluded that punitiveness had …
Five Myths About Prison, John F. Pfaff
Technologically Distorted Conceptions Of Punishment, Jessica M. Eaglin
Technologically Distorted Conceptions Of Punishment, Jessica M. Eaglin
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Much recent work in academic literature and policy discussions suggests that the proliferation of actuarial — meaning statistical — assessments of a defendant’s recidivism risk in state sentencing structures is problematic. Yet scholars and policymakers focus on changes in technology over time while ignoring the effects of these tools on society. This Article shifts the focus away from technology to society in order to reframe debates. It asserts that sentencing technologies subtly change key social concepts that shape punishment and society. These same conceptual transformations preserve problematic features of the sociohistorical phenomenon of mass incarceration. By connecting technological interventions and …