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Rethinking Punishment: Challenging Conventions in Research and Policy
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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 These arguments are based on the prior literature, existing and original data, and historical documents.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.

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RETHINKING PUNISHMENT

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 reentry into the community. This change in policy affords an opportunity to reexamine and challenge certain other conventions in the study and practice of punishment.

Justifying penal policy

Defining the attributes of punishment

Measuring the scope and severity of punishment

Evaluating effectiveness in punishment

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

In the punishment business, we are all pushing Sisyphuss rock researchers, practitioners, reformers and especially recipients of punishment and the shadow it casts has blinded us to just how little progress we have made up this hill (if any). In this lucid, original and utterly persuasive analysis, Lucken somehow rises above this insane cycle we are perpetuating and even suggests a way out of the futility. I cant imagine a more important and urgently needed book. It should be read and re-read at regular intervals like a treatment for an incurable disease.

Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester, UK

After several decades of get tough approaches to crime and punishment, change is coming, if slowly and sporadically. In Rethinking Punishment, Karol Lucken, a corrections scholar, examines the new approaches to corrections. The book provides an accurate, yet accessible and up-to-date overview of punishment philosophy and what works (and what doesnt) in corrections in the 21st century. The book will prove useful to corrections scholars, students, and anyone who wishes to better understand the state of punishment today.

Craig Hemmens, J.D., Ph.D. Chair and Professor, Department of Criminal
Justice and Criminology, Washington State University, USA

In Rethinking Punishment, Karol Lucken insightfully unlocks the grand motifs that continue to logjam the agenda to do anything reasonable to reverse the treadmill of mass incarceration. With a Trump presidency thrust upon us, this book is not only timely but also offers smart remedies void of ideological grandstanding.

Michael Welch, Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, USA

After forty years of carceral expansion, the US punitive experiment may have reached a turning point. As the rhetoric of law and order is increasingly challenged by neoliberal arguments about cost containment, critical scholars face the difficult task of charting the possible futures of punishment in an age of fiscal conservatism. Exceptionally well-researched and richly documented, Rethinking Punishment provides an original map of current debates around the definition, justification, and evaluation of penal practices and envisions possible paths toward alternative reformist agendas. This timely book is an invaluable resource for scholars, activists, and anyone interested in the future of the US penal state.

Alessandro De Giorgi, Associate Professor of Justice Studies,
San Jose State University, USA

RETHINKING PUNISHMENT

Challenging conventions in research and policy

Karol M. Lucken

First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Lucken, Karol, author.
Title: Rethinking punishment: challenging conventions in research and policy / Karol M. Lucken.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016030759| ISBN 9781138891197 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138891203 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315709789 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: PunishmentUnited StatesHistory. | PrisonsUnited StatesHistory.
Classification: LCC HV9466.L83 2017 | DDC 364.60973dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016030759

ISBN: 978-1-138-89119-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-89120-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-70978-9 (ebk)

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CONTENTS

Many hands assisted me in the preparation of this book. The work these individuals performed was tedious, invaluable, and greatly appreciated. The work of two undergraduate students, Devon Trevathon and Tiffany Richards, was outstanding and I am thankful for the University of Central Floridas Office of Undergraduate Research for supporting a platform that connected us. I would also like to thank my graduate assistant Melanie Soderstrom. Her attention to detail was astounding; she turned the task of historical referencing into a fine art. I am also grateful for the assistance of my mother, Barbara Greyburne, who at 84, is still sharp as a tack and eager to work. She assisted with contacting sources that yielded information on alternative sanctioning, and scrutinizing statistical tables for errant figures.

Also, many thanks to Hannah Catterall and Thomas Sutton at Routledge for their assistance and patience throughout the process.

INTRODUCTION

For the past several years, legislative and other policy activity at the state and federal level give strong indication that the get-tough era is finally winding down. To quote State Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, it appears that it is no longer enough to be tough on crime, we have to be smart on crime as well (Canham, 2015). Although it is too early to tell how far these get-smart changes will go and how long they will be sustained, the changes that have unfolded thus far are note-worthy to be sure. These changes are reviewed in the following section, however, the book is not about these changes per se. It is about the implications of these changes for several standing questions in research and policy.

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