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Rethinking Imprisonment
Richard L. Lippke
304 pages
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1 line drawing
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234x156mm
978-0-19-920912-5
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Hardback
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25 January 2007
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- Combines philosophical arguments, criminological evidence, and legal theory to argue for a normative theory of punishment
- Analyses retributive justice and crime reduction theories
- Looks at comparative perspectives on punishment theory and practice in the UK, Europe, and the USA
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.
Readership: Academic, students, and advanced scholars of crime, criminology, sociology, politics, penology, and the philosophy of punishment.
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Richard L. Lippke, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University, Virginia
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1: Censuring Equalization Retributivism
2: The Case for Retributive Sentencing
3: Imprisonable Offences
4: B-Level Analysis
5: Minimum and Extreme Conditions of Confinement
6: Initial Challenges to Prisoners' Rights
7: Work, Welfare, and Responsibility
8: In Defense of More Permeable Prisons
9: Retained Civil Rights
10: Access to Recreation and Entertainment
11: Privatization, Abolition, or Reform?
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