{"title":"The Sprawling Punitive Turn, 1993–2001","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Although Bill Clinton dialled back the war rhetoric, the punitive turn, measured by incarceration rates, treatment of juvenile “superpredators,” and hardening media treatments of crime, spread more widely over the American landscape. The shift of military resources to crime-fighting was evident in the many closed military bases converted into prison sites and in the Defense Logistics Agency’s handover of discarded military wares to police agencies. And more than ever, loud voices shouted, alleged criminals deserved not merely punishment, but vengeance.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117065502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Triumph of Militarized Crime-Fighting, 1981–1993","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush promoted the most decisive stage in the punitive turn, advancing militarized crime-fighting, mass incarceration, a war on drugs, and a political language of war and punishment. A passing fad for boot camps and a lasting embrace of S.W.A.T. policing were among the results. With little resistance from liberals, Republicans replaced the Cold War communist enemy with the criminal enemy.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"68 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120901992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Punitive Turn in an Age of Vengeance, 2001–2009","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The 9/11 attacks in 2001 propelled the long-building American currents of vengeance and punishment further onto the world stage under the leadership of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. U.S. torture of terrorist suspects highlighted that vengeance (and broke many laws) but also served to obscure how much torture took place within stateside criminal justice.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124095477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Crisis of a Militarized Order, 1963–1969","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to the era’s turmoil (above all, racial violence and the failing American war in Vietnam) by declaring a “war on crime” and starting a shift of war-fighting resources to crime-fighting, advancing its militarization. Insofar as one president deserves blame for initiating the punitive turn, he does. Shaped by their understanding of World War II. both liberals and conservatives also played major roles.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reversal or Redirection? 2009–2017","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of mounting resistance from old-line groups and new ones like Black Lives Matter, many elements of the punitive turn stabilized or even (as with incarceration rates) receded a bit during the Barack Obama years, while talk of crime-fighting as a “war” diminished. But by then the punitive turn was so deeply ingrained in American institutions that reversal was nearly impossible, and other elements, like America’s immigration system, worsened.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122637623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epilogue: The Enduring Punitive Turn","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Donald J. Trump’s candidacy and presidency tapped into the ugliest dimensions of the punitive turn, including its roots in the American experience of war and its pursuit of vengeance. Those dimensions were borne out especially in Trump’s immigration rhetoric and policy and his language about presumed enemies, including Hillary Clinton. Yet he so undercut the rule of law and administrative competence that he made the punitive turn not so much harsher as more chaotic and capricious. Rollback of the punitive turn gained further rhetorical support as his presidency ended, but detaching crime-fighting from war-fighting remained difficult. The nation still waged “war on crime,” even if fewer people now called it that.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123591639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"War on Crime in Vietnam’s Wake, 1969–1973","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660707.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Richard Nixon’s politics and penchant for vengeance, rising agitation in and about America’s prisons, and conflict over the Vietnam War’s legacy (especially for veterans) fuelled Nixon’s destructive, though unsteady, war on crime and its focus on drugs. The rehabilitative ideal—the belief that imprisonment might redeem criminals—came under assault from many quarters, while the Attica Prison uprising in 1971 exposed conflicting currents of punishment and redemption.","PeriodicalId":179515,"journal":{"name":"The Punitive Turn in American Life","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129454204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}