Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and PoliticsNYU Press, 01.04.2008 - 262 Seiten In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century,African Americans made up approximately twelve percent ofthe United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. Now, in the latter half of the decade, the nation is in the midst of the largest multi-year discharge of prisoners in its history. In Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities, Anthony C. Thompson discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why. |
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Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics Anthony C. Thompson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics Anthony C. Thompson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |
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Seite 57 - In requiring a moderately stringent standard of proof (ie, "clear and convincing evidence") in order to establish that the standard for termination of parental rights has been met* the Supreme Court concluded that "[t]he fundamental liberty interest of natural parents in the care, custody, and management of their child does not evaporate simply because they have not been model parents or have lost temporary custody of their child to the State. Even when blood relationships are strained, parents retain...
Seite 90 - We therefore conclude that deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain" . . . proscribed by the Eighth Amendment. This is true whether the indifference is manifested by prison doctors in their response to the prisoner's needs or by prison guards in intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care or intentionally interfering with the treatment once prescribed.
Seite 98 - ... that the prisoner's symptoms evidence a serious disease or injury; (2.) that such disease or injury is curable or may be substantially alleviated; and (3) that the potential for harm to the prisoner by reason of delay or the denial of care would be substantial. The right to treatment is, of course, limited to that which may be provided upon a reasonable cost and time basis and the essential test is one of medical necessity...
Seite 77 - State, or local law, or for other good cause; (iii) provide that any criminal activity that threatens the health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises by other tenants, any criminal activity that threatens the health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of their residences by persons residing in the immediate vicinity of the premises...
Seite 90 - It is but just that the public be required to care for the prisoner, who cannot, by reason of the deprivation of his liberty, care for himself.
Seite 23 - Taguiri (1969) defines the process of stereotyping as "the general inclination to place a person in categories according to some easily and quickly identifiable characteristic such as age, sex, ethnic membership, nationality, or occupation, and then to attribute to him qualities believed to be typical of members of that category, This paper is one of the reports from a project dealing with the changes in the inter-caste attitudes.
Seite 77 - ... any drug-related criminal activity on or off such premises, engaged in by a public housing tenant, any member of the tenant's household, or any guest or other person under the tenant's control, shall be cause for termination of tenancy...
Seite 83 - If segregation is permitted to continue, poverty will inevitably deepen and become more persistent within a large share of the black community, crime and drugs will become more firmly rooted, and social institutions will fragment further under the weight of deteriorating conditions. As racial inequality sharpens, white fears will grow, racial prejudices will be reinforced, and hostility toward blacks will increase, making the problems of racial justice and equal opportunity even more insoluble. Until...
Seite 225 - ... recession. Even when African Americans are able to land a job. it is likely to be a less desirable position. In 1997. only 16 percent of employed African Americans held professional or managerial jobs, compared to 3 1 percent of employed whites.