After Imprisonment: Special Issue Vol: 77
Austin Sarat
Amherst College, USA
Austin Sarat
Amherst College, USA
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Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781787692701
- Published:
- 06 Nov 2018
- Publisher:
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Dimensions:
- 192 pages - 152 x 229mm
- Series:
- Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Categories:
Studies in Law, Politics, and
Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the
broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition
of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of
legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume
features a special section with papers dedicated to life after imprisonment.
The chapters examine issues around offender rehabilitation, mass incarceration,
and overcriminalization. Other papers included in this important volume address
the shift in attitudes to solitary confinement (and the prospect of moving
beyond solitary confinement measures) and private prison services. This volume
brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those
researching in this subject area.
After Solitary Confinement: A New Era of
Punishment? Keramet
Reiter
Planning
for Precarity? Experiencing the Carceral Continuum of Imprisonment and Re-entry; Gillian Balfour, Kelly
Hannah-Moffat, and Sarah Turnbull
Banking on Rehab:
Private Prison Vendors and the Reconfiguration of Mass Incarceration; Jill A. McCorkel
The Collateral Consequence Conundrum: Comparative
Genealogy, Current Trends, and Future Scenarios; Alessandro Corda
"$40 to Make
Sure": Background Check Laws and the Endogenous Construction of Criminal Risk; David McElhattan
Churning through the System: How People Engage with
the Criminal Justice System when Faced with Short Sentences; Andrea Leverentz
Maximizing Charges: Overcriminalization and Prosecutorial Practices
During the Crime Decline; Heather Schoenfeld, Rachel M. Durso, and Kat Albrecht
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science.
