Thomas Alan Dichter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Alan Dichter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dichter |
| SIGNATURE | DICHTER T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”
First drafted during the author’s imprisonment in the 1930s, Chester Himes’s autobiographical prison novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry, was originally published in expurgated form as Cast the First Stone in 1953. This essay situates both versions in relation to contemporary sociological and popular discourses of state violence and racial liberalism. A pervasive midcentury ideology posited that rationalizing state violence could resolve both soci…
Worst of the Worst
While life-without-parole (LWOP) sentencing looks like a tough-on-crime repudiation of rehabilitation, it has deep roots in the penal ideology of earlier periods. The notion of incorrigibility on which LWOP rests was already implicit in the rehabilitationist project of the penitentiary movement. With attention to the indeterminate sentencing reforms of the Progressive era, the racialization of criminology, and the rhetoric surrounding LWOP since …
Worst of the Worst
While life-without-parole (LWOP) sentencing looks like a tough-on-crime repudiation of rehabilitation, it has deep roots in the penal ideology of earlier periods. The notion of incorrigibility on which LWOP rests was already implicit in the rehabilitationist project of the penitentiary movement. With attention to the indeterminate sentencing reforms of the Progressive era, the racialization of criminology, and the rhetoric surrounding LWOP since …
Worst of the Worst
While life-without-parole (LWOP) sentencing looks like a tough-on-crime repudiation of rehabilitation, it has deep roots in the penal ideology of earlier periods. The notion of incorrigibility on which LWOP rests was already implicit in the rehabilitationist project of the penitentiary movement. With attention to the indeterminate sentencing reforms of the Progressive era, the racialization of criminology, and the rhetoric surrounding LWOP since …
An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”
First drafted during the author’s imprisonment in the 1930s, Chester Himes’s autobiographical prison novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry, was originally published in expurgated form as Cast the First Stone in 1953. This essay situates both versions in relation to contemporary sociological and popular discourses of state violence and racial liberalism. A pervasive midcentury ideology posited that rationalizing state violence could resolve both soci…
Criminology (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work)