Punitive Politics in the United States: The End of an Era?

Three books, Trading Democracy for Justice by Traci Burch, Pulled Over by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel, and On The Run by Alice Goffman, belong at the core of this recent debate, which slowly but surely seems to be nudging the punitive practices of the United Sta...

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Published in:Perspectives on politics 2015-09, Vol.13 (3), p.749-753
Main Author: McBride, Keally
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizen participation
Citizenship
Convictions
Crime
Criminal investigations
Criminal justice
Criminal justice system
Criminal sentences
Democracy
Imprisonment
Neighborhoods
Political behavior
Political parties
Politics
Prisoners
Review Essay
Scrutiny
Supervision
Trading
Voter behavior
Voter turnout
Voters
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Summary:Three books, Trading Democracy for Justice by Traci Burch, Pulled Over by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel, and On The Run by Alice Goffman, belong at the core of this recent debate, which slowly but surely seems to be nudging the punitive practices of the United States under the glare of more scrutiny. [...]a block group with no prisoners has an average voter turnout that is about 6 percentage points higher than that of block groups with a spatial concentration of 250 prisoners per square mile in North Carolina; in Georgia, the figure is 2 percentage points” (p. 172). [...]Burch wants to raise her readers’ sense of outrage that the American criminal justice system is punishing the innocent. [...]she interviews Republican officials who explain why they do not work to register voters in these areas: “‘It doesn’t really do us much good to spend a lot of time and energy and resources to go out and register more Democrats than Republicans.
ISSN:1537-5927
1541-0986
DOI:10.1017/S1537592715001292