Richard L. Lippke
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199641468
- eISBN:
- 9780191732195
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641468.003.0009
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
In some instances, state officials offer defendants substantial waiver rewards because they recognize that the evidence which they have is short of conclusive. It is thought better to secure some ...
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In some instances, state officials offer defendants substantial waiver rewards because they recognize that the evidence which they have is short of conclusive. It is thought better to secure some punishment of defendants than to risk trials at which they might be acquitted. This “half-loaf” defense of plea bargaining is the subject of Chapter 8. It is argued that principled prosecutors and judges would not seek to bypass fair procedures designed to protect the innocent. Principled state officials will thus eschew half-loaf plea bargaining. They will offer modest waiver rewards, proceed to trial if defendants refuse such offers, or drop charges for which there is insufficient evidence. The hard cases will be those in which state officials have inadmissible evidence which they are certain confirms the guilt of individuals with respect to serious crimes. These cases are examined at length.Less
In some instances, state officials offer defendants substantial waiver rewards because they recognize that the evidence which they have is short of conclusive. It is thought better to secure some punishment of defendants than to risk trials at which they might be acquitted. This “half-loaf” defense of plea bargaining is the subject of Chapter 8. It is argued that principled prosecutors and judges would not seek to bypass fair procedures designed to protect the innocent. Principled state officials will thus eschew half-loaf plea bargaining. They will offer modest waiver rewards, proceed to trial if defendants refuse such offers, or drop charges for which there is insufficient evidence. The hard cases will be those in which state officials have inadmissible evidence which they are certain confirms the guilt of individuals with respect to serious crimes. These cases are examined at length.
Rebecca Anne Allahyari
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520221444
- eISBN:
- 9780520935327
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520221444.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study ...
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In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it. This book profiles volunteers at two charities—Loaves & Fishes and The Salvation Army—to show how they think about themselves and their work, providing new ways for discussing charity and morality. The book explores these agencies' differing ideological orientations and the raced, classed, and gendered contexts they provide volunteers for doing charitable work. Drawing on participant observation, intensive interviewing, and content analysis of organizational publications, it looks in particular at the process of self-improvement for these volunteers. The competing visions of charity the book finds at these two organizations reveal the complicated and contradictory politics of caring for the poor in the United States today.Less
In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it. This book profiles volunteers at two charities—Loaves & Fishes and The Salvation Army—to show how they think about themselves and their work, providing new ways for discussing charity and morality. The book explores these agencies' differing ideological orientations and the raced, classed, and gendered contexts they provide volunteers for doing charitable work. Drawing on participant observation, intensive interviewing, and content analysis of organizational publications, it looks in particular at the process of self-improvement for these volunteers. The competing visions of charity the book finds at these two organizations reveal the complicated and contradictory politics of caring for the poor in the United States today.
Rebecca Anne Allahyari
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520221444
- eISBN:
- 9780520935327
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520221444.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter focuses on the historical roots of Catholic Worker personalist hospitality and Salvationism. The moral rhetoric of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes emphasized respect for the poor ...
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This chapter focuses on the historical roots of Catholic Worker personalist hospitality and Salvationism. The moral rhetoric of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes emphasized respect for the poor through giving. The organizational structure maximizes the labor of diverse church-based volunteer groups to feed the city's hungry. The working arrangements of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes mediated between the radical Christian philosophy of the Catholic Workers and the organizational demands to recruit and manage a large volunteer workforce to provide for the daily needs of the urban poor. It shows that Protestants and Catholics brought different formulations of charity into play in the politics of welfare. It traces the working arrangements of visions of charity through organizational publications, interviews with staff, and participant-observation. It carries the essay of the prolific Maurin, a French peasant and Christian agitator, which spread the four tenets of the Catholic Worker philosophy, works of mercy, personalism, hospitality, and social justice.Less
This chapter focuses on the historical roots of Catholic Worker personalist hospitality and Salvationism. The moral rhetoric of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes emphasized respect for the poor through giving. The organizational structure maximizes the labor of diverse church-based volunteer groups to feed the city's hungry. The working arrangements of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes mediated between the radical Christian philosophy of the Catholic Workers and the organizational demands to recruit and manage a large volunteer workforce to provide for the daily needs of the urban poor. It shows that Protestants and Catholics brought different formulations of charity into play in the politics of welfare. It traces the working arrangements of visions of charity through organizational publications, interviews with staff, and participant-observation. It carries the essay of the prolific Maurin, a French peasant and Christian agitator, which spread the four tenets of the Catholic Worker philosophy, works of mercy, personalism, hospitality, and social justice.
Rebecca Anne Allahyari
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520221444
- eISBN:
- 9780520935327
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520221444.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes how the organizational rhetoric of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes guided the volunteers' moral selving. Moral selving may be understood as one type of deeply emotional ...
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This chapter describes how the organizational rhetoric of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes guided the volunteers' moral selving. Moral selving may be understood as one type of deeply emotional self-work. It involves a concern for transforming the experience of an underlying moral self, in contrast to a situated identity. Gratitude, commitment, and witnessing emerged as key themes in the routine volunteers' accounts of their experiences at Loaves & Fishes. Moral selving both mirrored and shaped the volunteers' connection to a wider community. Some volunteers encouraged others to participate in their volunteer work; some hoped to model caring for others for their children; others volunteered out of acknowledgment of their own economic vulnerability and gratitude for the good fortune of having homes. Gratitude for economic security, commitment to the work of feeding the urban poor, and witnessing the sacred in one's life emerged as interconnected themes, resonant with personalist hospitality but concurrently a product of the volunteers' moral selving. Catholic Worker philosophy teaches that witnessing God in one's life involves performing not only corporal works of mercy but also spiritual works of mercy.Less
This chapter describes how the organizational rhetoric of charitable action at Loaves & Fishes guided the volunteers' moral selving. Moral selving may be understood as one type of deeply emotional self-work. It involves a concern for transforming the experience of an underlying moral self, in contrast to a situated identity. Gratitude, commitment, and witnessing emerged as key themes in the routine volunteers' accounts of their experiences at Loaves & Fishes. Moral selving both mirrored and shaped the volunteers' connection to a wider community. Some volunteers encouraged others to participate in their volunteer work; some hoped to model caring for others for their children; others volunteered out of acknowledgment of their own economic vulnerability and gratitude for the good fortune of having homes. Gratitude for economic security, commitment to the work of feeding the urban poor, and witnessing the sacred in one's life emerged as interconnected themes, resonant with personalist hospitality but concurrently a product of the volunteers' moral selving. Catholic Worker philosophy teaches that witnessing God in one's life involves performing not only corporal works of mercy but also spiritual works of mercy.
Rebecca Anne Allahyari
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226303987
- eISBN:
- 9780226304007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226304007.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter describes the author's fieldwork among volunteers in the two largest charitable organizations dedicated to feeding the poor in Sacramento, California. At Loaves & Fishes, a Catholic ...
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This chapter describes the author's fieldwork among volunteers in the two largest charitable organizations dedicated to feeding the poor in Sacramento, California. At Loaves & Fishes, a Catholic Worker charity, the staff and “routine volunteers” (mostly middle class and predominantly white) strove to treat the poor with more compassion and love, while at The Salvation Army, kitchen staff and the “drafted volunteers” (mostly working class and male, many of color, and many formerly homeless) labored alike to be more responsible toward others. The felt politics of caring at Loaves & Fishes and The Salvation Army spanned three mutually constitutive horizons: the moral selving of individuals, the emotion cultures of the organizations, and the local politics of charity and social change. The analysis here focuses on the latter two in order to turn our attention most directly to social movement politics.Less
This chapter describes the author's fieldwork among volunteers in the two largest charitable organizations dedicated to feeding the poor in Sacramento, California. At Loaves & Fishes, a Catholic Worker charity, the staff and “routine volunteers” (mostly middle class and predominantly white) strove to treat the poor with more compassion and love, while at The Salvation Army, kitchen staff and the “drafted volunteers” (mostly working class and male, many of color, and many formerly homeless) labored alike to be more responsible toward others. The felt politics of caring at Loaves & Fishes and The Salvation Army spanned three mutually constitutive horizons: the moral selving of individuals, the emotion cultures of the organizations, and the local politics of charity and social change. The analysis here focuses on the latter two in order to turn our attention most directly to social movement politics.
Kenneth Stow
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804752817
- eISBN:
- 9780804767897
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804752817.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This is not a study of “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Judaism.” Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric—and sometimes not so ...
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This is not a study of “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Judaism.” Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric—and sometimes not so metaphoric—dogs. The dog has for millennia been the focus of impurity, and Catholicism fosters doctrines of physical purity that go hand in hand with those of ritual purity. The purity is that of the “one loaf” spoken of by St. Paul in Corinthians, which is, at once, the Eucharist and the collective Christian Corpus, the body of the faithful. Paul views this “loaf” as physically corruptible, and as John Chrysostom said at the close of the fourth century, the greatest threat to the loaf's purity are the Jews. They are the dogs who wish to steal the bread that belongs exclusively to the children. Eventually, Jews were said to attack the “loaf” through ritual murder and attempts to defile the Host itself; the victim of ritual murder is identified with the Host, as is common in Catholic martyrdom. Pope Pius IX still spoke of Jewish dogs barking throughout the streets of Rome in 1871. Other Catholic clergy were dismayed. This book is thus as much a study of Catholic doctrinal history as it is a study of Jews.Less
This is not a study of “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Judaism.” Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric—and sometimes not so metaphoric—dogs. The dog has for millennia been the focus of impurity, and Catholicism fosters doctrines of physical purity that go hand in hand with those of ritual purity. The purity is that of the “one loaf” spoken of by St. Paul in Corinthians, which is, at once, the Eucharist and the collective Christian Corpus, the body of the faithful. Paul views this “loaf” as physically corruptible, and as John Chrysostom said at the close of the fourth century, the greatest threat to the loaf's purity are the Jews. They are the dogs who wish to steal the bread that belongs exclusively to the children. Eventually, Jews were said to attack the “loaf” through ritual murder and attempts to defile the Host itself; the victim of ritual murder is identified with the Host, as is common in Catholic martyrdom. Pope Pius IX still spoke of Jewish dogs barking throughout the streets of Rome in 1871. Other Catholic clergy were dismayed. This book is thus as much a study of Catholic doctrinal history as it is a study of Jews.
Jean W. Cash
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604739800
- eISBN:
- 9781604739862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604739800.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter describes the doubt Larry Brown felt regarding his ability to teach. He was also hesitant to criticize student writing, since “you’re messing with something that has come out of ...
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This chapter describes the doubt Larry Brown felt regarding his ability to teach. He was also hesitant to criticize student writing, since “you’re messing with something that has come out of somebody’s heart and soul. I tell them if it doesn’t work this time, they’ve got to keep trying and believing in themselves.” Brown found his first taste of teaching as an associate instructor at the 1991 Bread Loaf conference, where Orman Day, another participant of the conference, described him as “quite approachable” and particularly sympathetic to students. Brown’s workshops were popular and thus quite crowded, and he was much less formal in the classroom than were some of the other teachers.Less
This chapter describes the doubt Larry Brown felt regarding his ability to teach. He was also hesitant to criticize student writing, since “you’re messing with something that has come out of somebody’s heart and soul. I tell them if it doesn’t work this time, they’ve got to keep trying and believing in themselves.” Brown found his first taste of teaching as an associate instructor at the 1991 Bread Loaf conference, where Orman Day, another participant of the conference, described him as “quite approachable” and particularly sympathetic to students. Brown’s workshops were popular and thus quite crowded, and he was much less formal in the classroom than were some of the other teachers.
