Title Reform nation : the First Step Act and the movement to end mass incarceration / Colleen P. Eren

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations Contents The First Step Act puzzle -- Mainstreamization and the movement -- Billionaires, philanthropy, and reform -- Celebrity activism in reform -- Reform® : corporate social activism -- Strange bedfellows -- Formerly incarcerated activists, and the future of criminal justice reform Summary "In late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours preceding a government shutdown. It was one of the few major pieces of federal criminal justice reform since the 1970s to move towards reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized United States policy. While it did not amount to revolutionary reform, in Reform Nation Colleen P. Eren investigates it as a symbol for the larger movement's trajectory. Its unlikely passage during a period of political polarization was testament to the power of a new constellation of advocates, stakeholders, and strange bedfellow alliances. These intriguing and complex dynamics are indicative of a longer, twenty-year shift in which the movement became nationalized and mainstreamed. Using in-depth interviews with major players in the national movement, formerly incarcerated activists, celebrities, and donors, this is the first book to turn the mirror back on the criminal justice reform movement itself--the frames used, the voices heard, the capital activated among elite participants, and the bitter controversies. This snapshot in time raises much larger questions about how our democratic processes inform criminal justice policy, and where we are going in the decades to come"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Criminal Justice Reform Legal Reform Mass Incarceration Nonprofits Philanthropy Political Movements Social Change Social Justice Social Movements Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 11, 2023) Subject United States. First Step Act of 2018. Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States Imprisonment -- United States Correctional law -- United States Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States Law reform -- United States LAW / Criminal Law / General. Correctional law Imprisonment Law reform Sentences (Criminal procedure) United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2022055895 ISBN 9781503636743 1503636747

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