Rethinking Imprisonment
Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 January 2007
- ISBN 9780199209125
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 240x160x22 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 line drawing 0
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Short description:
This book draws upon philosophical arguments, criminological evidence, and legal literature on prisoners' rights and sentencing to explore the restrictions and deprivations that can be legitimately imposed on serious offenders in the name of punishment.
MoreLong description:
Drawing on philosophical arguments, criminological evidence, and the legal literature on prisoners' rights, Rethinking Imprisonment defends a normative theory of imprisonment. Such a theory provides an account of the justified conditions of prison confinement - the restrictions and deprivations that may be legitimately imposed on serious offenders in the name of punishment. The theory of legal punishment upon which this account builds combines retributive and crime reduction elements, with the former accorded priority on both moral and epistemic grounds. Contrary to its formidable reputation, retributivism is shown to place important and substantial limits on the character of imprisonment, its appropriate use, and duration. Much of the contemporary use of imprisonment as a legal sanction is arguably unjustified on all three counts.
Rethinking Imprisonment urges the adoption of prison conditions at or near the 'minimum conditions of confinement' which severely curtail the freedom of movement, freedom of association, and privacy of prisoners, yet are still consistent with ensuring the basic physical and psychological welfare of prisoners, and provide them with access to paid labor, visitation, entertainment, recreation, and retained civic and political rights. This book argues firstly that the punishment of serious offenders generally requires no more than the imposition of 'minimum conditions of confinement' and secondly that moral constraints on punishment derived from retributivism in conjunction with the available evidence about the prison regimes most likely to reduce crime point towards more humane and less restrictive prisons.
Table of Contents:
Censuring Equalization Retributivism
The Case for Retributive Sentencing
Imprisonable Offences
B-Level Analysis
Minimum and Extreme Conditions of Confinement
Initial Challenges to Prisoners' Rights
Work, Welfare, and Responsibility
In Defense of More Permeable Prisons
Retained Civil Rights
Access to Recreation and Entertainment
Privatization, Abolition, or Reform?
