The Punitive Turn in American Life
How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19983455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael S Sherry (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Punitive Turn in American Life (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4206519606 |
| Open Library | OL29885812M |
| ISBN | 9781469660707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the "war on crime" had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost--to those arrested, imprisoned, or killed and to the social fabric of the nation--and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd’s murder. Stoked by "forever war," the punitive turn endured even as it met fiercer resistance. From the racist system of mass incarceration and the militarization of criminal justice to gated communities, public schools patrolled by police, and armies of private security, Sherry chronicles the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation
Criminology · Human rights · Imprisonment · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Punishment (psychology) · Punitive damages · Sociology · Stalking · Torture · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Crime in popular culture · Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003) · History · James Q. Wilson · Militarism · Police · Political aspects of Crime · Social aspects of Militarism · united states · Vietnam
Stephen Miran, the intensifying internal war economy of Trump 2.0, and the new architecture of coercion
September 11th Revisited
Stressed Out in Lock Down
Work in Long-Term Restrictive Housing and Prison Personnel Perceptions of the Humanity of People Who Are Incarcerated
Mapping Violence
A “Terrible Swift Sword
Lorton Prison’s Contentious Heritage
Propertied bodies
Public order is the first business of government
Global counterinsurgency and the police-military continuum
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |