Too Easy to Keep
Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration
Seiten
2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30051-4 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30051-4 (ISBN)
“Some guys don’t break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don’t commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They’re usually our easiest keepers.”
Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisoners—the large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep charts the challenges that a life sentence poses—both to the prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them. Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment policy.
Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisoners—the large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep charts the challenges that a life sentence poses—both to the prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them. Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment policy.
Steve Herbert is Mark Torrance Professor and Department Chair of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. He is the author of Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department; Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community; and, with Katherine Beckett, Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Easy Keeper
1. Becoming Easy
2. Being Easy Isn’t Easy
3. When Easy Becomes Hard
4. Let’s All Be Easy
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-30051-3 / 0520300513 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-30051-4 / 9780520300514 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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Buch | Softcover (2023)
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