Hyper-Incarceration and Strategies of Disruption: Is There a Way Out?

32 Pages Posted: 14 Dec 2010

Date Written: December 13, 2010

Abstract

This paper explores exit strategies from our policy of hyper-incarceration. On the theory that the underlying causes of the policy are firmly entrenched, it focuses instead on disrupting the political micro-processes that make the policy seem acceptable. Part One describes these micro-processes. Parts Two through Four outline three forms of politics that might disrupt them: a politics of amelioration, a politics of transformation, and a politics of accommodation. Part V assesses the available choices for what is to be done.

Keywords: incarceration, punishment, criminal law

JEL Classification: K00, K40, K42

Suggested Citation

Seidman, Louis Michael, Hyper-Incarceration and Strategies of Disruption: Is There a Way Out? (December 13, 2010). Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-76, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1724955

Louis Michael Seidman (Contact Author)

Georgetown University Law Center ( email )

Washington, DC 20057
United States

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