SOCI 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.2: Arraignment
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Because prisons make punishment visible, we can more easily quantify the policy debates over the wisdom of this application of the criminal sanction. Invisible punishment- diminution of the rights and privileges of citizenship and legal residency in us: operated beyond public view, take effect outside traditional sentencing framework, not typically considered by judiciary committees. Over 6% adult population committed felony crime. One"s debt to society is never paid. In an era when symbolic denunciation of criminals was politically rewarding, the opportunity to deny offenders the largess of welfare state too tempting. 1996 analysis of state statues (compared to 1986: permanently denying convicted felons right to vote, allowing termination of parental rights, establishing felony conviction as grounds for divorce, restricting right to hold public of ce and rearm ownership. Following fundamental realignments: expansion of universe of invisible punishment, war on drugs, long campaign to enact fundamental changes in welfare system.
