Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2016
Series: Book 16 of 28 - Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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- Title
- Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
- Author
- Dagan, David
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0190246448
- ISBN 13
- 9780190246440
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Series
- Book 16 of 28: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
Over the last few years, conservatives in Washington, D.C. and in bright-red states like Georgia and Texas, have reversed course, and are now leading the charge to curb prison growth. In Prison Break, David Dagan and Steve Teles explain how this striking turn of events occurred, how it will affect mass incarceration, and what it teaches us about achieving policy breakthroughs in our polarized age. Combining insights from law, sociology, and political science, Teles and Dagan will offer the first comprehensive account of this major political shift. In a challenge to the conventional wisdom, they argue that the fiscal pressures brought on by recession are only a small part of the explanation for the conservatives' shift, over-shadowed by Republicans' increasing anti-statism, the waning efficacy of "tough on crime" politics and the increasing engagement of evangelicals. These forces set the stage for a small cadre of conservative leaders to reframe criminal justice in terms of redeeming wayward souls and rolling back government.
These developments have created the potential to significantly reduce mass incarceration, but only if reformers on both the right and the left play their cards right. As Dagan and Teles stress, there is also a broader lesson in this story about the conditions for cross-party cooperation in our polarized age. Partisan identity, they argue, generally precedes position-taking, and policy breakthroughs are unlikely to come by "reaching across the aisle," promoting "compromise," or appealing to "expert opinion." Instead, change happens when political movements redefine their own orthodoxies for their own reasons. As Dagan and Teles show, outsiders can assist in this process - and they played a crucial role in the case of criminal justice - but they cannot manufacture it. This book will not only reshape our understanding of conservatism and American penal policy, but also force us to reconsider the drivers of policy innovation in the context of American politics.
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About the Author
Steven Teles is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, and is the author of The Conservative Legal Movement in America (Princeton UP).
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