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American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment (Hardcover)
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American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment (Hardcover)
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The idea of American exceptionalism has made frequent appearances
in discussions of criminal justice policies-as it has in many other
areas-to help portray or explain problems that are especially acute
in the U.S., including mass incarceration, retention of the death
penalty, racial and ethnic disparities, and the War on Drugs. While
scholars do not universally agree that it is an apt or useful
framework, there is no question that the U.S. is an outlier, when
compared with other industrialized democracies, in its punitive and
exclusionary criminal justice policies. This volume of essays
deepens the debate of American exceptionalism in crime and
punishment through comparative political, economic, and historical
analyses, with an orientation toward forward-looking prescriptions
for American law, policy, and institutions of government. The
chapters expand the literature to neglected areas such as community
supervision, parole release, and collateral consequences of
conviction; explore claims of causation, in particular the view
that the U.S. history of slavery and racial inequality has been a
primary driver of crime policy; examine arguments that the
framework of multiple governments and localized crime control,
populist style of democracy, and laissez-faire economy are
implicated in problems of both crime and punishment; and assess
theories that cultural values are the most salient predictors of
penal severity and violent crime. With an outstanding list of
contributors edited by a leading authority on punishment, this
volume demonstrates that the largest problems of crime and justice
cannot be brought into focus from the perspective of single
jurisdiction, and that comparative inquiries are necessary for an
understanding of the current predicament in the US.
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