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#How Can a Public Tolerate It? (1) Normative Preponderance (clawback), (2) Lacking sense of togetherness (Randolph Roth, American Homicide) | #How Can a Public Tolerate It? (1) Normative Preponderance (clawback), (2) Lacking sense of togetherness (Randolph Roth, American Homicide) | ||
*[http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/14 Surveying the last 200 years of the history of the prison, one might well ask why the constant failure of the prison to live up to its claims has had no impact on its continuing longevity.] The history of the prison emerges as a succession of phases of over-exaggerated optimism in the power of the prison to change human behaviour, swiftly followed by failure in the realm of reality. One explanation for the survival of the prison might be that it has been successfully presented as the embodiment of a variety of contradictory justifications for punishment: it can been seen as incapacitating, retributive and as educative; either as | *[http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/14 Surveying the last 200 years of the history of the prison, one might well ask why the constant failure of the prison to live up to its claims has had no impact on its continuing longevity.] The history of the prison emerges as a succession of phases of over-exaggerated optimism in the power of the prison to change human behaviour, swiftly followed by failure in the realm of reality. | ||
'''Three quarters of people who are released from prison will be arrested within five years and about 55 percent will end up back in prison —Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2014.''' | |||
One explanation for the survival of the prison might be that it has been successfully presented as the embodiment of a variety of contradictory justifications for punishment: it can been seen as incapacitating, retributive and as educative; either as harsh punishment or as benevolent reform, whichever suits the public mood best. - No research has been able to demonstrate a positive link between a higher rate of imprisonment and a reduction of the crime rate. | |||
'''In fact, as Norval Morris points, "the less effective the prisons are in reducing crime, the higher the demand for more imprisonment" (p. 257).''' | '''In fact, as Norval Morris points, "the less effective the prisons are in reducing crime, the higher the demand for more imprisonment" (p. 257).''' | ||