Readings and Discussions

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We will read Caught with a couple of chapters from Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity. The discussion will take place at 1-3pm on Dec. 12, at Hagerty 455. This book is available in e-book in OSU library. But please contact us if you want to have a hard copy.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10731.html

The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rights, and citizenship—posing a formidable political and social challenge. In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies—one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvestment, and reducing recidivism.With a new preface evaluating the effectiveness of recent proposals to reform mass incarceration, Caught offers a bracing appraisal of the politics of penal reform. Marie Gottschalk is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment, and Penance in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2015) . For Dec. 12 discussion, we have chosen the following chapters:

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This book has won the Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Archaeology and Ancient History. For more information on the book, see

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/prison-punishment-and-penance-late-antiquity?format=HB

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