Todd R. Clear
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195305791
- eISBN:
- 9780199943944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305791.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter proposes a way of dealing with concentrated incarceration, focusing on community justice. Given the difficulty of achieving meaningful sentencing reform in the current policy ...
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This chapter proposes a way of dealing with concentrated incarceration, focusing on community justice. Given the difficulty of achieving meaningful sentencing reform in the current policy environment, this chapter offers a conceptualization of community justice as an alternative that promises a set of new values that might lead us to new ways of justice. This chapter explains that community justice initiatives could thrive under a regime of reduced imprisonment and they could also contribute to reductions in imprisonment. The elements of community justice include a focus on high-incarceration places, attention to norms and values in those places and attempts to improve schools, jobs, and housing as target.Less
This chapter proposes a way of dealing with concentrated incarceration, focusing on community justice. Given the difficulty of achieving meaningful sentencing reform in the current policy environment, this chapter offers a conceptualization of community justice as an alternative that promises a set of new values that might lead us to new ways of justice. This chapter explains that community justice initiatives could thrive under a regime of reduced imprisonment and they could also contribute to reductions in imprisonment. The elements of community justice include a focus on high-incarceration places, attention to norms and values in those places and attempts to improve schools, jobs, and housing as target.
Todd R. Clear
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195305791
- eISBN:
- 9780199943944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305791.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter discusses the problems associated with concentrated incarceration. It discusses the increase in prison population and suggests that incarceration does more damage than good, including ...
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This chapter discusses the problems associated with concentrated incarceration. It discusses the increase in prison population and suggests that incarceration does more damage than good, including increases in crime. It also argues that incarceration has become part of its own dynamic and that it has grown to the point that it now produces the very social problems on which it feeds. It contends that it is not possible to reform sentencing procedures without reconceptualizing the correctional project itself.Less
This chapter discusses the problems associated with concentrated incarceration. It discusses the increase in prison population and suggests that incarceration does more damage than good, including increases in crime. It also argues that incarceration has become part of its own dynamic and that it has grown to the point that it now produces the very social problems on which it feeds. It contends that it is not possible to reform sentencing procedures without reconceptualizing the correctional project itself.
Patrick Lopez-Aguado
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520288584
- eISBN:
- 9780520963450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520288584.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter establishes the context for the research explored throughout the book and introduces the “carceral social order” as a concept for understanding the identities and relationships that are ...
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This chapter establishes the context for the research explored throughout the book and introduces the “carceral social order” as a concept for understanding the identities and relationships that are socialized by the punitive facility through the sorting and segregation of its charges. In focusing on the prison as a socializing force, I propose that what happens inside the institution has consequences outside it as well. Specifically, I argue that we can recognize the racial sorting of prison inmates in California as a process that has had clear and visible implications for the state’s criminalized communities of color. I contextualize this analysis within existing literature on mass incarceration, the geographic concentration of imprisonment, collateral consequences, and secondary prisonization. This chapter also introduces the research sites that are examined in this work, explains the means used for data collection, and contains an outline of the rest of the book.Less
This chapter establishes the context for the research explored throughout the book and introduces the “carceral social order” as a concept for understanding the identities and relationships that are socialized by the punitive facility through the sorting and segregation of its charges. In focusing on the prison as a socializing force, I propose that what happens inside the institution has consequences outside it as well. Specifically, I argue that we can recognize the racial sorting of prison inmates in California as a process that has had clear and visible implications for the state’s criminalized communities of color. I contextualize this analysis within existing literature on mass incarceration, the geographic concentration of imprisonment, collateral consequences, and secondary prisonization. This chapter also introduces the research sites that are examined in this work, explains the means used for data collection, and contains an outline of the rest of the book.
