Felony Disenfranchisement in America : Historical Origins, Institutional Racism, and Modern Consequences.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pettus, Katherine Irene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, Oct. 2004.
Colección:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Suffrage > United States.
Prisoners > Suffrage > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Prisoners > United States > Suffrage.
Prisonniers > Suffrage > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
Prisoners > Suffrage
Criminal justice, Administration of
Suffrage
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE: Citizenship and Status Honor: Pre-modern Origins of the Contemporary American Practice of Felon Disenfranchisement
  • Introduction
  • 1. Max Weber's Concept of Status Honor
  • 2. Status Honor Institutionalized: Citizenship in the "Republican" Tradition
  • 3. The Punishment of Atimia in Athens and Sparta
  • 4. The Roman Infamia
  • 5. Infamy, Civil Death, Attainder, and "felony" in European and American Law
  • Conclusion
  • CHAPTER TWO: Felon Disenfranchisement and the Problem of Double Citizenship
  • Introduction: The Scholarly Critique
  • 1. The Problem of Double Citizenship in the United States
  • 2. Compound Citizenship: Theoretical Perspectives
  • 3. Republican Citizenship
  • 4. Democratic Citizenship: Growing in "Ordered Richness"
  • 5. Democratic Individuality
  • 6. Failures of Democratic Recognition
  • CHAPTER THREE: Representation, Reconstruction, and American Atimia
  • Introduction
  • 1. Atimia in the American Context of Representative Government and Party Competition
  • 2. The Administrative Imperative of Black Citizenship and the Issue of White Vote Dilution
  • 3. The Criminal Justice System as a Representative Institution
  • 4. Vote Dilution, Individual Rights and The Warren Court
  • 5. Political Inequality of "Qualified" American Citizens
  • 6. Representational versus Electoral Equality
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Judicial Justifications of Felon Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Crime and Punishment
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Neo-Contractarian Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement
  • 2. The Communitarian or "Republican" Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement
  • 3. The Political Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Law and Order
  • 4. The Criminal Justice System as a Continuum of Moments
  • CHAPTER FIVE: The Double Polity Identified
  • Introduction
  • 1. Overview of Retributive Theory
  • 2. The Moral, or Reforming Justification of Punishment
  • 3. The Concept of "Crime"
  • 4. Crime, Justice, and Impunity
  • 5. The Racial Contract
  • 6. A Postcolonial Perspective on the American Punishment Polity
  • 7. The Colonial Identity and Racialized Space
  • Conclusion and Summary
  • ENDNOTES
  • REFERENCES.

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