Democratic theory and mass incarceration /
Despite its increasing visibility as a social issue, mass incarceration - and its inconsistency with core democratic ideals - rarely surfaces in contemporary political theory. Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration seeks to overcome this puzzling disconnect by deepening the dialogue between democr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Punishment and Democratic Theory: Resources for a Better Penal Politics; Chapter 2 Democratic Politics in an Age of Mass Incarceration; Chapter 3 Civic Punishment; Chapter 4 Playing Fair with Imprisonment; Chapter 5 A Democratic Theory of Imprisonment; Chapter 6 Why Greater Public Participation in Criminal Justice?; Chapter 7 Punitive Restoration: Giving the Public a Say on Sentencing; Chapter 8 After Penal Populism: Punishment, Democracy, and Utopian Method
- Chapter 9 Liberty, Justice, and All: The Folly of Doing Good by StealthChapter 10 Mass Incarceration and Public Opinion on Crime and Justice: From Democratic Theory to Method and Reality; Chapter 11 A Trade-Off Between Safety and Democracy? An Empirical Investigation of Prison Violence and Inmate Self-Governance; Chapter 12 Violent Crime, Constitutional Frameworks, and Mass Publics; Chapter 13 Democracy All the Way Down-Deliberative Democracy and Criminal Law: The Case of Social Protests; Index