Rethinking Punishment

Challenging Conventions in Research and Policy

Karol Lucken (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-89120-3 (ISBN)

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What is punishment? Why do we punish? How much do we punish? What works in punishment? This book explores some of these questions and more, revealing that some of the answers are interconnected and that conventional wisdom is not always right.

There are visible signs that the "get-tough" era of punishment is finally winding down. A "get-smart" agenda has emerged that aims to reduce costs and crime by reducing the incarceration of non-violent drug offenders, expanding use of community-based corrections, revising sentencing structures, and supporting offender re-entry into the community. This change in policy affords an opportunity to re-examine and challenge certain other conventions in the study and practice of punishment.

Each chapter of Rethinking Punishment examines a convention and posits arguments that challenge that convention and expand the conversation. These arguments are based on the prior literature, existing and original data, and historical documents. These conventions and arguments for rethinking punishment are framed accordingly:

Justifying Penal Policy

Defining the Attributes of Punishment

Measuring the Scope and Severity of Punishment

Evaluating Effectiveness in Punishment

Finally, the author provides specific recommendations for research and policy based on these original arguments. Drawing on underlying philosophical, empirical and political issues and offering a critical discussion of the relationship between research, policy and practice, this book makes compelling and instructive reading for students taking courses in criminal justice, corrections, philosophy of punishment, the sociology of punishment, and law and justice.

Karol M. Lucken is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida, USA

Preface

1. Introduction

1.1 From "Get-Tough" to "Get-Smart"

1.2 Chapter Framework

1.3 A Note on Exclusions and Terminology

2. Justifying Punishment: A Moral and Economic Defense of Policy

2.1 Part I: Classic Philosophies of Punishment

2.2 Part II: Post-Classic Justifications of Punishment

2.3 Summary and Conclusions

3. Defining Punishment: The Essential Attributes of Penal Activity

3.1 What is Punishment? Definitions from the Academic Literature

3.2 What is Punishment? A Legal Framework

3.3 What is Punishment? A Social Control Framework

3.4 What is Punishment? A Power Theory Framework

3.5 Summary and Conclusions

4. Measuring Punishment: The Scope & Severity of Penal Activity

4.1 A Brief History on the Measurement of Punishment

4.2 Part I: The Scope of Penal Activity

4.3 Part II: The Severity of Penal Activity

4.4 Summary and Conclusions

5. Evaluating Punishment: "What Works" and the Pursuit of Effectiveness

5.1 The Expectations and Evaluation of Punishment: An Historical Perspective

5.2 The New Evidence-Based Culture

5.3 What We Know About "What Works"

5.4 Summary and Conclusions

6. Prescribing Punishment: Alternative Directions in Research & Policy

6.1 Conventions in Prescribing Research & Policy

6.2 Justifying Punishment: Loss Reduction as Penal Policy

6.3 Defining & Measuring Punishment: More Debate, More Data

6.4 Evaluating Punishment: Severity, Community and Insider Knowledge

6.5 Final Thoughts

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	18 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	330 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10	1-138-89120-7 / 1138891207
ISBN-13	978-1-138-89120-3 / 9781138891203
Zustand	Neuware