The End of an Era? Understanding the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741606 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Beckett (0000-0002-5523-087X, University of Washington, corresponding author), Anna Reosti (0009-0006-6804-313X, University of Washington), Emily Knaphus, Emily Knaphus-Soran (0000-0002-8657-2741, University of Washington) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 664 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 238-259 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716215598973 |
| OpenAlex | W2285204097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 34 |
Recent drops in the U.S. rate of incarceration have triggered much discussion regarding the fate of mass incarceration. Some observers suggest that the political consensus in favor of getting tough on crime has been shattered and replaced by a new consensus that the prison population must be downsized. In this article, we explore the possibility that neither legislation nor public discourse around crime and punishment has shifted so dramatically, and that the cultural dynamics surrounding reform efforts may undermine the prospects of comprehensive sentencing reform. To assess these hypotheses, we analyze trends in criminal justice policy reform from 2000 to 2013 and newspaper stories and editorials on criminal justice reform since 2008. While we do find important examples of changing rhetoric and policy, we suggest that these changes do not constitute a "paradigm shift." Rather, they are indicative of a more subtle, complex, and contradictory modification of the way punishment is conceived, discussed, and ultimately enacted
Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Legislation · Mass incarceration · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Population · Prison · Punishment (psychology) · Rhetoric · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education Discipline and Inequality · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Beyond the austerity-driven hypothesis
Against the churn
They’re just different
Did Oregon’s tough mandatory sentencing law “measure 11” improve public safety? New evidence about an old debate from a multiple-design, experimental strategy
Arguing for Criminal Justice Reform
Expanding Our Understanding of Focal Concerns
Decreased Bi-Partisan Support for Pretrial Detention in Less Serious Cases
The foresight of Frontlash
Man I’m all torn up inside’
Racial Innocence
Possibilities and Contestation in Twenty-First-Century US Criminal Justice Downsizing
This is everyone's issue”
A test of the bifurcation hypothesis in prosecutorial diversion
Can We Downsize Our Prisons and Jails Without Compromising Public Safety
Conflicted conservatives, punitive views, and anti-Black racial bias 1974–2014
Prosecutors as punishers
Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US
Discipline that hurts”
The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968–2016
Bifurcation nation
Same old song and dance? An analysis of legislative activity in a period of penal reform
A kinder, gentler drug war? Race, drugs, and punishment in 21st century America
Public support for the death penalty in a red state
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition
Critical Junctures and Conditions of Change
The Place of Punishment in Twenty-First-Century America
Reshaping Goals and Values in Times of Penal Transition
Ending Mass Incarceration
Life Sentences and Perpetual Confinement
The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration
There is a common thread
Reform from Within
Making Gideon Count? Public Defender Resources and Felony Case Outcomes for Black, White, and Latinx Individuals
College Applicants with Felony Records
The limits of criminal justice reform
Cohort Differences in the Cumulative Risk of Criminalization in Texas
When Politicization Stops Algorithms in Criminal Justice
Mass Incarceration and Its Discontents
Adjudication Under Cover
The Politics of Presidential Pardons
Life Sentences and Minor Offenses
How the Canadian sentencing system impacts policy reform
The liberal dream of smart detention? Algorithms and the politics of pretrial detention in the US states
Does racial impact statement reform reduce Black–White disparities in imprisonment
US Criminal Justice Policy and Practice in the Twenty‐First Century
Drug Trafficking as Crime Against Humanity
The Criminalization of Muslims in the United States, 2016
Power to the Paperwork? Mandatory Financial Sanctions and the Bureaucratic Means to Racially Unequal Ends
The symbolic uses of politics
Caught
Marked
Unequal under Law
Racial Disparities in Incarceration Increase Acceptance of Punitive Policies
The Toughest Beat
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
The Politics of Injustice
Governing Through Crime
Punishment and Modern Society
The Condemnation of Blackness
Remodeling American Sentencing
Making peace, not a desert
Prison Officer Unions and the Perpetuation of the Penal Status Quo
Mapping the shadow carceral state
The New Jim Crow
Seeing Black
Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms
The Division of Labour in Society
Locked In? Conservative Reform and the Future of Mass Incarceration
The Police on Skid-Row
Critical Traditions in Law and Society Research
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
Mass Incarceration and the Paradox of Prison Conditions Litigation
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State
Embarrassment and Social Organization
Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
The Psychology of Punitive Justice
Path dependence in historical sociology
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |