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Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism

2014 Fordham University Press ;ISBN: 0823262413 ;ISBN: 9780823262410 ;ISBN: 9780823262434 ;ISBN: 082326243X ;ISBN: 9780823262427 ;ISBN: 0823262421 ;EISBN: 0823262456 ;EISBN: 9780823262458 ;EISBN: 9780823262434 ;EISBN: 082326243X ;EISBN: 9780823262441 ;EISBN: 0823262448 ;DOI: 10.1515/9780823262441 ;OCLC: 923764489 ;LCCallNum: JK1846.D55 2014

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  • Title:
    Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
  • Author: Dilts, Andrew
  • Subjects: Citizenship ; Criminology ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration ; History & Theory ; Liberalism ; Political aspects ; Political rights, Loss of ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Politics and government ; Prisoners ; Punishment ; Race ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Suffrage ; United States
  • Description: At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot vote because of a felony-class criminal conviction, meaning that more than 2 percent of otherwise eligible voters are stripped of their political rights. Nationally, fully a third of the disenfranchised are African American, effectively disenfranchising 8 percent of all African Americans in the United States. In Alabama, Kentucky, and Florida, one in every five adult African Americans cannot vote. Punishment and Inclusion gives a theoretical and historical account of this pernicious practice of felon disenfranchisement, drawing widely on early modern political philosophy, continental and postcolonial political thought, critical race theory, feminist philosophy, disability theory, critical legal studies, and archival research into state constitutional conventions. It demonstrates that the history of felon disenfranchisement, rooted in postslavery restrictions on suffrage and the contemporaneous emergence of the modern "American" penal system, reveals the deep connections between two political institutions often thought to be separate, showing the work of membership done by the criminal punishment system and the work of punishment done by the electoral franchise. Felon disenfranchisement is a symptom of the tension that persists in democratic politics between membership and punishment. This book shows how this tension is managed via the persistence of white supremacy in contemporary regimes of punishment and governance.
  • Publisher: New York: Fordham University Press
  • Creation Date: 2014
  • Format: 320
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0823262413
    ISBN: 9780823262410
    ISBN: 9780823262434
    ISBN: 082326243X
    ISBN: 9780823262427
    ISBN: 0823262421
    EISBN: 0823262456
    EISBN: 9780823262458
    EISBN: 9780823262434
    EISBN: 082326243X
    EISBN: 9780823262441
    EISBN: 0823262448
    DOI: 10.1515/9780823262441
    OCLC: 923764489
    LCCallNum: JK1846.D55 2014
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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