Clear and Frost chart the rise of penal severity in the U.S. and the forces necessary to end it
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate--five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America's move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social experiment. Tracing a wide array of trends related to the criminal justice system, this book charts the rise of penal severity in America and speculates that a variety of forces--fiscal, political, and evidentiary--have finally come together to bring this great social experiment to an end. The authors stress that while the doubling of the crime rate in the late 1960s represented one of the most pressing social problems at the time, it was instead the way crime posed a political problem--and thereby offered a political opportunity--that became the basis for the great rise in punishment. Clear and Frost contend that the public's growing realization that the severe policies themselves, not growing crime rates, were the main cause of increased incarceration eventually led to a surge of interest in taking a more rehabilitative, pragmatic, and cooperative approach to dealing with criminal offenders that still continues to this day. Part historical study, part forward-looking policy analysis, The Punishment Imperative is a compelling study of a generation of crime and punishment in America.
Автор: Berger, Arthur Asa Название: Gizmos or the electronic imperative ISBN: 1137575263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137575265 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7965.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In his latest book, Arthur Asa Berger offers a concise series of analyses on the transformative impact of digital devices on American society.
Clear and Frost chart the rise of penal severity in the U.S. and the forces necessary to end it Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social experiment. Tracing a wide array of trends related to the criminal justice system, this book charts the rise of penal severity in America and speculates that a variety of forces—fiscal, political, and evidentiary—have finally come together to bring this great social experiment to an end. The authors stress that while the doubling of the crime rate in the late 1960s represented one of the most pressing social problems at the time, it was instead the way crime posed a political problem—and thereby offered a political opportunity—that became the basis for the great rise in punishment. Clear and Frost contend that the public’s growing realization that the severe policies themselves, not growing crime rates, were the main cause of increased incarceration eventually led to a surge of interest in taking a more rehabilitative, pragmatic, and cooperative approach to dealing with criminal offenders that still continues to this day. Part historical study, part forward-looking policy analysis, The Punishment Imperative is a compelling study of a generation of crime and punishment in America.
Автор: William V. Spanos Название: On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum ISBN: 3319478702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319478708 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world`s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of political belonging.
Автор: Kultgen John Название: Abolition of Nuclear Weapons as a Moral Imperative ISBN: 0739188194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739188194 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 14108.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book advocates for the United States to abolish nuclear weapons, arguing its necessity in terms of the harmful consequences of nuclear deterrence. Kultgen`s argument is based on conceptions of human rights and is couched in terms accessible to the disciplines that address human affairs in the social sciences, history, arts, and humanities.
In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema to show that our multiple social contexts affect what we perceive and how we feel when we read. Championing and modeling a kind of close reading that attends to how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, Paula M. L. Moya demonstrates the power of works of literature by writers such as Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, and Helena Maria Viramontes to alter perceptions and reshape cultural imaginaries. Insofar as literary fiction is a unique form of engagement with weighty social problems, it matters not only which specific works of literature we read and teach, but also how we read them, and with whom. This is what constitutes the social imperative of literature.
Автор: Stewart Wolf Название: The Technological Imperative in Medicine ISBN: 1468441205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781468441208 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lebowitz, Michael A. Название: Socialist imperative ISBN: 1583675477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781583675472 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12277.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital (winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of "Real Socialism." Here, he develops and deepens the analysis contained in those pathbreaki
Автор: Anderson Elizabeth Название: Imperative of Integration ISBN: 0691158118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691158112 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would a
Автор: S. Prakash Sethi; Oliver F. Williams Название: Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business ISBN: 0792378938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792378938 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 30606.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book covers a systematic analysis of the workings of the Sullivan Principles and their impact on the operations of the US corporation in South Africa. It explores the process of the dismantling of apartheid and creation of a non-racial, democratic government in South Africa.
Автор: Rasula Jed Название: This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry ISBN: 0820344192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820344195 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves. In <em>This Compost</em> Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by American poets and the poetics they develop in their craft, all with an eye toward an emerging ecological worldview. </p> <p>Rasula begins by examining poets associated with Black Mountain College in the 1950s--Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan--and their successors. But <em>This Compost</em> extends to include earlier poets like Robinson Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Rexroth, and Muriel Rukeyser, as well as Clayton Eshleman, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and other contemporary poets. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson also make appearances. Rasula draws this diverse group of poets together, uncovering how the past is a ""compost"" fertilising the present. He looks at the heritage of ancient lore and the legacy of modern history and colonial violence as factors contributing to ecological imperatives in modern poetry. </p> <p><em>This Compost</em> restores the dialogue between poetic language and the geophysical, biological realm of nature that so much postmodern discourse has sought to silence. It is a fully developed, carefully argued book that deals with an underrepresented element in modern American culture, where the natural world and those who write about it have been greatly neglected in contemporary literary history and theory. </p>
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