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Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment. By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a more compassionate, effective and just response to crime. The book’s chapters follow a journey from victim experiences of violence to community healing from violence. Early chapters examine the relational harms inflicted by the worst wrongs, the moral responsibility of wrongdoers and common mistakes made in judging wrongdoing. Particular attention is paid here to sexual violence. The book then moves to questions of just punishment: proper sentencing by judges, mandatory sentences approved by the public, and the realities of contemporary incarceration, focusing particularly on solitary confinement and sexual violence. In its remaining chapters, the book looks at changes brought by the victims' rights movement and victim needs that current law does not, and perhaps cannot meet. It then addresses possibilities for offender change and challenges for majority America in addressing race discrimination in criminal justice. The book concludes with a look at how individuals might live out the ideals of a greater—relational—justice.

Criminals --- Social justice. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Punishment. --- Violence. --- Collective responsibility --- Crime --- Criminal justice reform --- Individual responsibility --- Justice --- Mass incarceration --- Punishment --- Racial bias --- Restorative justice --- Violence --- Rehabilitation.

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Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country's mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration. The Upper Limit explains how this unusual mix came about, examining how, beginning in the 1970s, declining living standards for the poor have defined social and penal policy in the United States, making welfare more restrictive and punishment harsher. François Bonnet shows how low-wage work sets the upper limit of social and penal policy, where welfare must be less attractive than low-wage work and criminal life must be less attractive than welfare. In essence, the living standards of the lowest class of workers in a society determine the upper limit for the generosity of welfare and for the humanity of punishment in that society. The Upper Limit explores the local consequences of this punitive adjustment in East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood where crime fell in the 1990s. Bonnet argues that no meaningful penal reform can happen unless living standards and the minimum wage rise again. Enlightening and provocative, The Upper Limit provides a comprehensive theory of the evolution of social and penal policy.

Public welfare --- History. --- East New York (New York, N.Y.) --- brooklyn neighborhood. --- comprehensive. --- contemporary punishment and society studies. --- east new york. --- enlightening. --- evolution of social and penal policy. --- higher living standards and minimum wage. --- local consequences of punitive adjustment. --- provocative. --- punishment harsher. --- welfare more restrictive. --- welfare reform and mass incarceration.

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America's monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825-1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854-1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth's peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration-as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US-a relationship that thrives to this day.

History --- Crime & criminology --- Political science & theory --- 1890s. --- america. --- bleeding kansas. --- democracy. --- design of punishment. --- federal penitentiary. --- freedom. --- history. --- indian territory. --- law. --- leavenworth. --- mass incarceration. --- monuments to democracy. --- nation building system. --- peculiar architecture. --- political significance. --- post war racial history. --- prison. --- race. --- slavery. --- state inflicted violence. --- us capitol building. --- us history. --- United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas --- History. --- United States. --- U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas --- Leavenworth Prison --- Leavenworth Penitentiary --- U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, KS

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You Can't Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage. Sociologist Andrea S. Boyles offers an everyday montage of protests, social ties, and empowerment that coalesced to safeguard black lives while igniting unprecedented twenty-first-century resistance. Focusing on neighborhood crime prevention and contentious black citizen-police interactions in the context of preserving black lives, this book examines how black citizens work to combat disorder, crime, and police conflict. Boyles offers an insider's analysis of cities like Ferguson, where a climate of indifference leaves black neighborhoods vulnerable to conflict, where black lives are seemingly expendable, and where black citizens are held responsible for their own oppression. You Can't Stop the Revolution serves as a reminder that community empowerment is still possible in neighborhoods experiencing police brutality and interpersonal violence.

Police-community relations --- Police brutality --- African Americans --- Protest movements --- Violence against --- activists. --- african american studies. --- african americans. --- black citizens. --- black community. --- black lives matter. --- black lives. --- black neighborhoods. --- black. --- community empowerment. --- crime prevention. --- criminal justice. --- criminology. --- death. --- discrimination. --- empowerment. --- ethnic studies. --- ferguson. --- mass incarceration. --- neighborhood crime. --- nonfiction. --- police brutality. --- police conflict. --- political engagement. --- political movements. --- politics. --- prejudice. --- protests. --- race. --- racism. --- resistance. --- social issues. --- violence in society. --- violence.

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Introduction -- The right to free speech : students and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi -- The right to equal protection : segregation and inequality in the Denver public schools -- The right to due process : student discipline and civil rights in Columbus, Ohio -- A right to equal education : the fourteenth amendment and American schools -- Tinker's troubled legacy : discipline, disorder, and race in the schools, 1968-1983 -- Epilogue.

Nineteen sixties --- Students --- Social aspects. --- Civil rights --- History --- United States. --- Blackwell v. Issaquena. --- Brown v. Board. --- Burnside v. Byars. --- Chicano Movement. --- Children’s Defense Fund. --- Eighth Amendment. --- First Amendment. --- Fourteenth Amendment. --- Fourth Amendment. --- Freedom Summer. --- Goss v. Lopez. --- Ingraham v. Wright. --- Keyes v. School District. --- Mexican American. --- Mississippi. --- Southern Regional Council. --- Supreme Court. --- Tinker v. Des Moines. --- United Nations. --- bilingual education. --- children’s rights. --- civil rights. --- constitutional law. --- corporal punishment. --- de facto segregation. --- desegregation. --- due process. --- equal educational opportunity. --- equal protection. --- free speech. --- gun violence. --- mass incarceration. --- racial discrimination. --- racial disparities. --- right to education. --- right to literacy. --- right to privacy. --- school desegregation. --- school discipline. --- school segregation. --- student movement. --- student protest. --- students with disabilities. --- students’ rights. --- suspensions.