The Ethics of Policing and Imprisonment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gardner, Molly (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Weber, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political science.; Political Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.

This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States. The contributors consider the ways in which non-ideal features of the criminal justice system-features such as the prevalence of guns in America, poli...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Punishment and Democratic Rights: A Case-Study in Non-Ideal Penal Theory; Steven Swartzer
• 2. Philosophers in Prison: Students in the Indiana Women's Prison College Program Reflect on Philosophical Theories of Punishment; Mariam Kazanjian
• 3. How Many Police Shootings are Tragic Mistakes? How Many Can We Tolerate?; Christian Coons
• 4. The Ethics of Policing: A Feminist Proposal; Julinna Oxley
• 5. Policing and Racial Discrimination: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bath Water; Douglas Husak
• 6. The Case Against Jails; Richard Lippke
• 7. Restorative Justice and Punitive Restoration; Thom Brooksl
• 8. The Racial Politics of U.S. Gun Policy; Amanda Gailey
• 9. Destabilizing Conceptions of Violence; Lori Gruen, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce
• 10. Criminal Process and Mutual Accountability: Mass Incarceration, Carcerality, and Abolition; Stephen Darwall and William Darwall
• Index.