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1 online resource |
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Criminal Justice Recent Scholarship |
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Citizenship and Status Honor: Pre-modern Origins of the Contemporary American Practice of Felon Disenfranchisement -- Introduction -- 1. Max Weber's Concept of Status Honor -- 2. Status Honor Institutionalized: Citizenship in the "Republican" Tradition -- 3. The Punishment of Atimia in Athens and Sparta -- 4. The Roman Infamia -- 5. Infamy, Civil Death, Attainder, and "felony" in European and American Law -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO: Felon Disenfranchisement and the Problem of Double Citizenship -- Introduction: The Scholarly Critique -- 1. The Problem of Double Citizenship in the United States -- 2. Compound Citizenship: Theoretical Perspectives -- 3. Republican Citizenship -- 4. Democratic Citizenship: Growing in "Ordered Richness" -- 5. Democratic Individuality -- 6. Failures of Democratic Recognition -- CHAPTER THREE: Representation, Reconstruction, and American Atimia -- Introduction -- 1. Atimia in the American Context of Representative Government and Party Competition -- 2. The Administrative Imperative of Black Citizenship and the Issue of White Vote Dilution -- 3. The Criminal Justice System as a Representative Institution -- 4. Vote Dilution, Individual Rights and The Warren Court -- 5. Political Inequality of "Qualified" American Citizens -- 6. Representational versus Electoral Equality -- CHAPTER FOUR: Judicial Justifications of Felon Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Crime and Punishment -- Introduction -- 1. The Neo-Contractarian Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement -- 2. The Communitarian or "Republican" Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement -- 3. The Political Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Law and Order -- 4. The Criminal Justice System as a Continuum of Moments -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Double Polity Identified -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of Retributive Theory -- 2. The Moral, or Reforming Justification of Punishment -- 3. The Concept of "Crime" -- 4. Crime, Justice, and Impunity -- 5. The Racial Contract -- 6. A Postcolonial Perspective on the American Punishment Polity -- 7. The Colonial Identity and Racialized Space -- Conclusion and Summary -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES |
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Annotation Pettus traces felony disenfranchisement from Athenian democracy to the present. She analyzes the contradiction between present state disenfranchisement practices and voting rights jurisprudence and concludes that American citizens lack equal voting rights: the right to vote for national representatives is trumped by state laws that define felonies and the criteria for disenfranchisement. The majority of the disenfranchised today are African-American, and most felony convictions are drug-related. Nonetheless, drug use and trafficking are equally distributed across demographic groups. The current variation in state laws disenfranchising felons, the lack of standard definitions of felonies, and the racial disparities within the criminal justice system reproduce many of the inequalities of the colonial America, despite the development of federal citizenship and voting rights law since the end of the Civil War |
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Scholarly & Professional LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC |
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Suffrage -- United States.
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Prisoners -- Suffrage -- United States
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Prisoners -- United States -- Suffrage
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Prisoners -- Suffrage
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Suffrage
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781593320614 |
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1593320612 |
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1280361441 |
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9781280361449 |
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9781593321635 |
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1593321635 |
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