EC 222/PP 220 "The Political Economy of Punishment"
Tu/Th 2:30-3:50pm, Taubman Center Conf. Rm., 67 George St.
References for Punishment Course
Summary of Bruce Western's Punishment and Inequality in America
Link to NPR programming on solitary confinement
Link to Texas Execution Statements
Link to Congressional Hearings on Mass Incarceration
Brown Alumni Magazine Profile of Professor Loury
A. Course Readings
Atlantic article public housing and crime in Memphis
The Culture of Control (chp.1)
Atlantic Monthly Article on the Prison-Industrial Complex
Levitt on Understanding Fall in Crime Rates
Wacquant on Prisons as Ghettos
Pettit and Western on Prison and the Life Course
The Culture of Control, Chps. 7-8
Punishment and Modern Society, Chp. 2
Tonry, Thinking About Crime, Chp. 2
Trondman on Immigrants in Sweden .
Loury's article expanding on 'The Anatomy of Racial Inequality'
Anderson, "Code of the Streets, " Chp. 2
Anderson, "Code of the Streets," Chp. 3
Randall Kennedy, "Race, Crime & the Law," Chp. 9
Tonry, " Malign Neglect" Chapter 1, Chapter 3
Raphael paper on Prisons and AIDS Transmission
Transcript of NPR Series on Prison Isolation
NY Times on Religion in Prisons
Ludwig Analysis of Marijuana Arrests in NYC
Levine Data on Marijuana Arrests in NYC
Elliot Currie Lecture on End of Justice
Tommy Shelby on Justice and the 'Dark Ghetto'
David Karp article on Judicial Use of Shaming
Bobo and Thompson on Race and Legitimacy
Brettschneider on the Rights of the Guilty
Sentencing Discrimination based on Afrocentric Features
Sentencing Discrimination based on Afrocentric Features - II
Sampson and Raudenbush on Perceptions of Disorder
Excerpts from Gresham Sykes, The Society of Captives
Report on the racial effects of drug enforcement
B. Lecture Notes
Slides on Racial Inequality and Mass Incarceration
Campaigning for Respect Game Tree
Lecture Outline: Why We Punish (9/20/07)
Lecture Outline: The Moral Ecology of Ghettos (9/27/07)
Lecture Note on Culture vs. Structure
Data on Intimate Partner Victimization by Race
Lecture Notes on Racial Inequality
C. Writing Assignments