Prison and the Gallows
The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22373435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Gottschalk |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, S Christianson, 2007 |
| Venue | Prison and the Gallows (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511791093 |
| ISBN | 9780511791093 |
| Open Library | OL34452300M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 283 |
| References cited | 186 |
The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain this unprecedented reliance on mass imprisonment? Throughout American history, crime and punishment have been central features of American political development. This 2006 book examines the development of four key movements that mediated the construction of the carceral state in important ways: the victims' movement, the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and opponents of the death penalty. This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements and interest groups within the constraints of larger institutional structures and historical developments that distinguish the United States from other Western countries.
Capital punishment · Civil rights · Criminal law · Do dsstraff · Fängelser · Government policy · Imprisonment · politics and government · Prisoners · Prisons · united states
Racial Inequalities in Connectedness to Imprisoned Individuals in the United States
Punitiveness in the global east
Politics of Criminal Justice
Capital Punishment
The Bureaucratic Production of Difference
Social Theory of Fear
Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry
Prison Visitation and Recidivism
The proliferating pains of imprisonment
Comparative-historical analysis in contemporary political science
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise
Prisons and Pollution
Race and Men’s Imprisonment in the United States
“It’s just this lingering, hovering thing …” Professionals supporting individuals under community supervision during disasters
The War on Crime and the War on Rape
How the Rockefeller Laws Hit the Streets
The moderating role of victim-related education in social work
The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans
The Current Crisis of American Criminal Justice
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States
Depression and repression
Forgotten Rebellions
Carceral hegemony
The politics of accountability
Did Mass Incarceration Leave Americans Feeling Less Afraid? A Multilevel Analysis of Cumulative Imprisonment and Individual Perceptions of Fear
Too Harsh for Me but Not for Thee? Threat Control, Personal Freedom, and Perception of Pandemic Policy
Driving Public Support
Asymmetric Compassion Collapse, Collateral Consequences, and Reintegration
Assessing the Delivery of the Thinking for a Change Program in Modified Formats
Managing Prisons Through Extended Solitary Confinement
The Ghosts Inside
Captives of the “Society of Captives”
Views From the Inside
Prison Personnel Solutions for Reducing and Improving the Appropriate Use and Effectiveness of Extended Restrictive Housing
Compounded Social Vulnerability
Addressing the Race Gap in Incarceration Rates
American political development and black lives matter in the age of incarceration
The politics of oppression and power
Rallying for repression
The Impossibility of Habitability
Reclaiming the Prison Boom
Explaining the United States’ Penal Exceptionalism
Post‐conflict police reconstruction
Contested theories of prison labor practice
The pains of immigrant imprisonment
Crime, Politics, and Punishment
Everyday terrorism
Rethinking Public Opinion in Penal Policymaking
Invisible ghosts of care and penality
Citizens, community, and crime control
More than just a famous face
Six Months Is a Joke”
German Exceptionalism? An Empirical Analysis of 20 Years of Law and Order Legislation
The Origins of Mass Incarceration
Race and Inequality in the War on Drugs
Sentenced to Life
Race, Law, and Inequality, 50 Years After the Civil Rights Era
Racial Innocence
Reintegrative Populism
Creating the Will to Change
American imprisonment and prison officers’ unions
The local and the legal
Mass incarceration, legal change, and locale
The past, present, and future of mass incarceration in the United States
Cracks in the Penal Harm Movement
Can 14,737 women be wrong? A meta‐analysis of the LSI‐R and recidivism for female offenders
The Effect of “No‐drop” Prosecution Policies on Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
Prison Officer Unions and the Perpetuation of the Penal Status Quo
Money and mass incarceration
The Politics of the Death Penalty
Response to Naomi Murakawa’s and Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver’s reviews of Caught
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy
From carceral feminism to transformative justice
Where’s the panic, where’s the fire? Why claims of moral panic and witch hunts miss the mark when it comes to campus rape and MeToo
The delayed emergence of penal modernism in Florida
Punishment is purple
Theoretical advances and problems in the sociology of punishment
Evaluating voluntary sector involvement in mass incarceration
Explanations of American punishment policies
Carceral reckoning and twenty-first century US abolition movements
Governing through crime as commonsense racism
Punishment and the cultural limits to state power in late 18th-century Britain
Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US
America's extraordinary penal state
Between protection and punishment
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water
The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968–2016
Anger about crime and support for punitive criminal justice policies
Same old song and dance? An analysis of legislative activity in a period of penal reform
Reimagining the sociology of punishment through the global-south
Ruptured alliances
Expansion, standardization, and densification of the criminal justice apparatus
The costly consequences of populist posturing
Catholics and capital punishment
Never too late
Clothing makes the man
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness
The promises and pitfalls of path dependence frameworks for analyzing penal change
Punishment, globalization and migration control
Penal controls and social controls
A Taste for Punishment
The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates
Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times
From the Outside In
The Search for American Political Development
Incapacitation
Taming the System
Feminism and the Power of Law
Building a New American State
A Just Measure of Pain
Punishment and Social Structure
Crime Is Not the Problem
The Rights Revolution
The Culture of Control
Their Sisters' Keepers
Crime Control and Feminist Law Reform in Domestic Violence Law
Killing Her Softly
The Shadow Welfare State
Policing the Crisis
Rituals of Retribution
The politics of sentencing reform
States of Injury
Predators
The Carnival of Crime In the United States
Against Capital Punishment
Constructing Victims' Rights
Sentencing reform in overcrowded times
Repair or Revenge
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America
The Prison at Philadelphia Cherry Hill
The Death Penalty
The Lost Sisterhood
The Politics of Abolition
Governing NOW
Men of Blood
Reform in the Making
Victims Still
Capital Punishment in Canada
Search and Destroy
Crime in the Public Mind
Crime and Politics
America's Correctional Crisis
From Jim Crow To Civil Rights
Malign Neglect Race, Crime, And Punishment In America
Drug War Heresies
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
Hate Crimes
Punishment and Modern Society
The Race Card
Feminism and criminology
Refuges for Battered Women
The Progressives and the Prostitute
Labor Surplus and Punishment
Suitable Enemies
Governing Social Marginality
Popular support for the prison build-up
Imprisonment Rates and the New Politics of Criminal Punishment
The Death Penalty Capital of the Western World
In Pursuit of the Vernacular
Michigan's Continuing Abolition of the Death Penalty and the Conceptual Components of Symbolic Legislation
Changing prison populations in Western countries
Constructing the New Political Criminology
Understanding Prisons
I am because we are
Unprotected by the swedish welfare state revisited
Women, housing, homelessness and domestic violence
Feminist Responses to "Crimes against Women," 1868-1896
Women, Violence and Social Change
Interest groups in the criminal justice process
Prisoners in America
State Felon Disenfranchisement Policy
Battered Women
The Woolf Report
The Penal Reform Movement in the South During the Progressive Era, 1890- 1917
Hardening of the Attitudes
Civilizing Punishment
Uncontrolled Desires
Behind the Prison Riots
Negro Criminality in the South
Progress and Prosecution
Toward a Principled Basis for Federal Criminal Legislation
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
State Prison Populations and Their Growth, 1971–1991
Policy Relevance and the Future of Criminology—the American Society of Criminology. 1990 Presidential Address
The Politics of Prison Expansion
The Vice Trust
"A "Torrent of Abuse
Governments, Victims and Policies in Two Countries
Decarceration in the Federal Republic of Germany
Conflicts as Property
Towards Safer Societies
Cross-National Imprisonment Rates
The Limits of the Sovereign State
The Sometime Connection
Program Enterprise and Official Cooptation in the Battered Women's Shelter Movement
Mediation in the Justice System
Mapping the Margins
Justice and Gender
Crime and Control in the Culture of Late Modernity
| Citations per year | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | Yes |