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How the Criminal Justice System Educates Citizens

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ID5741563
AuthorsBlair Justice (0000-0002-5713-9543), Benjamin Justice, Tracey L Meares (0000-0001-8915-2091)
Year2014
Volume651
Issue1
Pages159-177
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002716213502929
OpenAlexW2162631039
LanguageEN
Citations received77
References cited34

There are at least two central pathways through which the modern democratic state interacts with citizens: public school systems and criminal justice systems. Rarely are criminal justice systems thought to serve the educational function that public school systems are specifically designed to provide. Yet for an increasing number of Americans, the criminal justice system plays a powerful and pervasive role in providing a civic education, in anticitizenry, that is the reverse of the education that public schools are supposed to offer. We deploy curriculum theory to analyze three primary processes of the criminal justice system-jury service, incarceration, and policing-and demonstrate the operation of two parallel curricula within them: a symbolic, overt curriculum rooted in positive civic conceptions of fairness and democracy; and a hidden curriculum, rooted in empty or negative conceptions of certain citizens and their relationship to the state

Criminal justice · Criminology · Curriculum · Democracy · Economic Justice · Function (biology) · Jury · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theory of criminal justice · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education Discipline and Inequality · Law · Public Administration

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