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\"Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything to get out of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary--surely nothing could be worse. When a Samaritan act by a psychologist he's never met places Cosgrove in the care of Roland \"Doc\" Luther, Cosgrove can't believe his luck. Doc claims that Cosgrove owes him nothing, and seems at times like the most decent man alive. But at other times, Doc's potential for cruelty seems unimaginable, and Cosgrove discovers that freedom's not as freeing as he thought it would be--especially when it might end up getting him killed\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Die Deutschen brauchen keine Schulen – Südtirols Geschichte oder Zukunft?
Der vorliegende, reich bebilderte Band verdeutlicht schon auf den ersten Blick den besonderen Zugang zu dieser schwierigen Aufgabenstellung: Es sollte ein Buch verfasst werden, das leicht lesbar bleibt, ansprechend ist, die leidvollen Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit offen anspricht, ohne Ressentiments zu schüren, gleichzeitig aber in die Zukunft blickt und den hohen Entwicklungsstand der Südtiroler Schule als Bestätigung heranzieht, dass sich der Einsatz für eine solche Schule letztlich lohnt und reichhaltige Frucht tragen kann. Am Ende des Bandes wird der Blick über Südtirol hinaus gerichtet, indem die Situation im Elsass (die von einem praktisch völligen Verschwinden der deutschen Sprache gekennzeichnet ist) sowie die Position der deutschen Sprache in der Welt dargestellt werden. An diesem Band mitgewirkt haben, neben Margareth Lun, Karl Saxer, Günther Rauch, Othmar Parteli, Karl Pfeifhofer, Miriam Brunner, Eva Klotz, Efrem Oberlechner, Verena Geier, Bernard Wittmann und Johannes Aussladscheiter. Die zugrunde liegende polemische Parole eines faschistischen Statthalters in Südtirol aus dem Jahr 1923 ist sicherlich historisch belegt und steht für ein sehr schlimmes - und sehr lange währendes und auch später noch nachwirkendes - Kapitel der Südtiroler Schulgeschichte, aber der Band reicht in seinen Beiträgen weit darüber hinaus und gewinnt gerade auch durch seine Themenvielfalt und durch den Idealismus, der insbesondere von den Biographien ausstrahlt.
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Pervasive Punishment
This book challenges the centrality of the prison in our understanding of punishment, inviting us to see, hear, imagine, analyse and restrain 'mass supervision'. Though rooted in social theory and social research, its innovative approach complements more conventional academic writing with photography, song-writing and storytelling.
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Correction : parole, prison, and the possibility of change
\"FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don't actually know why we punish. Ben Austen's powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and the parole board that holds their freedom in the balance, Austen's unflinching storytelling forces us to reckon with some of the most profound questions underlying the country's values around crime and punishment. What must someone who commits a terrible act do to get a second chance? What does incarceration seek to accomplish? An illuminating work of narrative nonfiction, Correction challenges us to consider for ourselves why and who we punish-and how we might find a way out of an era of mass imprisonment\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How parole boards judge remorse: Relational legal consciousness and the reproduction of carceral logic
One in seven people in prison in the US is serving a life sentence, and most of these “lifers” will someday be eligible for discretionary parole. But little is known about a key aspect of parole decision‐making: remorse assessments. Because remorse is a complex emotion that arises from past wrongdoing and unfolds over time, assessing the sincerity of another person's remorse is neither a simple task of lie detection, nor of determining emotional authenticity. Instead, remorse involves numerous elements, including the relationship between a person's past and present motivations, beliefs, and affective states. To understand how parole board members make sense of remorse, we draw on in‐depth interviews with parole commissioners in California, the state with the largest proportion of parole‐eligible lifers. We find that commissioners' remorse assessments hinge on their perceptions of lifers' relationships to law and carceral logic. In this way, relational legal consciousness—specifically, second‐order legal consciousness—functions as a stand‐in for the impossible task of knowing another person's heart or mind. We distinguish relational from second‐order legal consciousness and argue that understanding how they operate at parole hearings reveals the larger import of relational legal consciousness as a mechanism via which existing power relations are produced and reproduced, bridging the legal consciousness and law and emotion literatures.
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Life without parole : America's new death penalty?
\"Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as \"the new death penalty.\" Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its social, cultural, political, and legal meanings. What justifies the turn to life imprisonment? How should we understand the fact that this penalty is used disproportionately against racial minorities? What are the most promising avenues for limiting, reforming, or eliminating life without parole sentences in the United States? Contributors explore the structure of life without parole sentences and the impact they have on prisoners, where the penalty fits in modern theories of punishment, and prospects for (as well as challenges to) reform\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Future of Parole Release
American parole boards have played a critical role in the formulation and administration of states’ prison policies in recent decades—and could play an equally important part in helping end mass incarceration. Long neglected by academic, research, and policy communities, systems of discretionary prison release are in need of improvement, if not “reinvention.” A plan for revitalization of parole release should lay out a comprehensive and aspirational model for the future. It must address the institutional structure of parole boards, how much release discretion they are given, the substantive grounds for release decisions, the use of risk assessments in the decisional process, decision-making tools such as parole release guidelines, the requirements of fair and reliable procedures, victims’ rights at parole hearings, the need for parole supervision in some but not all cases, the intensity of parole conditions, and the length of parole supervision.
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Judging Risk
Risk assessment plays an increasingly pervasive role in criminal justice in the United States at all stages of the process—from policing to pretrial detention, sentencing, corrections, and parole. As efforts to reduce mass incarceration have led to the adoption of risk-assessment tools, critics have begun to ask whether various instruments in use are valid, and whether they might reinforce rather than reduce bias in the criminal justice system. Such questions, however, have largely neglected how decision-makers use risk assessment in practice. In this Article, we explore the judging of risk assessment and why decision-makers so often fail to consistently use quantitative risk assessment tools.
We present the results of a novel set of studies of both judicial decision-making and attitudes towards risk assessment. In our first study, we find that even in Virginia, whose risk assessment instrument has been hailed as a national model for the use of risk assessment, sentencing data indicates that judicial use of risk assessment is highly variable. In our second study, the first comprehensive survey of its kind, we also find quite divided judicial attitudes towards risk assessment in sentencing practice. Even if, in theory, an instrument can better sort offenders in less need of jail or prison, in practice, decision-makers may not use it as intended.
Still more fundamentally, in criminal justice, unlike in other areas of the law, one does not have detailed regulations concerning the use of risk assessment that specify the content of assessment criteria, the peer review process, and standards for judicial review. We make recommendations for how to better convey risk assessment information to judges and other decision-makers, and how to structure that decision-making based on common assumptions and goals. We argue that judges and lawmakers must revisit the use of risk assessment in practice. We conclude by setting out a roadmap for the use of risk information in criminal justice. Unless judges and lawmakers regulate the judging of risk assessment, the risk-assessment revolution in criminal justice will not succeed in addressing mass incarceration.
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