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My latest (academic?) musings about progressive punishment perspectives

By Douglas A. Berman

The kind editors of the Harvard Law & Policy Review were kind enough to ask me to write a piece for their terrific on-line journal.  Thanks to the editors' great and speedy efforts, my HLPR article now appears at this link.  The piece is titled, "Reorienting Progressive Perspectives for Twenty-First Century Punishment Realities," and here are the first two paragraphs: Progressives have long played a leading role in reforming punshment practices and sentencing norms in the United States.  In the nineteenth century, progressives pioneered a move away from brutal physical punishments toward the development of penitentiaries focused on the spiritual rehabilitation of lawbreakers.  In the twentieth century, progressives complained about the failure to devote sufficient resources to humane prison programming and about the tendency of rehabilitative ideals to be corrupted in practice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).