Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice

The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective, showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations, policies, and practices, as well as the struggle between actors that shapes laws, institutions, and how we think about crime, punishment, and related issues. Through a re-analysis of more than two hundred years of penal history, starting with the rise of penitentiaries in the 19th Century and ending with ongoing efforts to roll back mass incarceration, the authors offer an alternative approach to conceptualizing penal development. Their agonistic perspective posits that struggle is the motor force of criminal justice history. Punishment expands, contracts, and morphs because of contestation between real people in real contexts, not a mechanical "swing" of the pendulum. This alternative framework is far more accurate and empowering than metaphors that ignore or downplay the importance of struggle in shaping criminal justice. This clearly written, engaging book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and scholars seeking to understand the past, present, and future of American criminal justice. By demonstrating the central role of struggle in generating major transformations, Breaking the Pendulum encourages combatants to keep fighting to change the system.

Politics & Social Sciences

Goodman, Philip

Page, Joshua

Phelps, Michelle

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Book by Halpert, Robert D., Goodman, Philip

Gastrointestinal Radiology: The Requisites (Requisites in Radiology Series)

Halpert, Robert D.

Medical Books

Mosby, Inc.

The Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology

Religion & Spirituality

Jewish Pubn Society

Goodman, Philip, Passover Anthology, The

Passover Anthology

The Jewish New Year is observed through prayer, contemplation and moral soul searchings. It initiates the pensive ten day cycle known as the Days of Awe, culminating in Yom Kippur. This anthology of treasures from the Bible, Talmud, Midrash and by writers from edieval to modern times strikes a balnce between the solemn and the festive.

Rosh Hashanah Holiday Anthology

Jewish Publication Society of America

Sukkot, festival of the harvest and thanksgiving, culminates the fall cycle of Jewish holidays. Build and decorate a sukkah, eat and sing in it under the stars, remembering the temporary shelters that the Jews built in the desert. Learn about the beautiful traditions of lulav and etrog as observed in the home and synagogue. Immediately following is Simhat Torah, when Jews complete the reading of the Torah for the year and begin the cycle again. Learn the history and customs of the joyous processional - hakafor - in synagogues around the world

The Sukkot/Simhat Torah Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Purim Anthology [Paperback] Philip Goodman (Author)

The Purim Anthology

Coming at the beginning of summer, Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, in essence the birthday of the Jewish people. Learn the songs, poems, stories and readings that are part of the celebration of the Feast of Weeks across generations and throughout the Diaspora as well as in Israel. Includes selections both for children and adults.

Shavuot Anthology

The spiritual grandeur of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, has always appealed strongly to Jews from its ancient beginnings through centuries in the Diaspora and into modern times. Few Jews absent themselves from the community of Israel on this day, from Kol Nidre until the final shofar blast ending the sunset to sunset fast.

The Yom Kippur Anthology

Judaism

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Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice

Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice

Gastrointestinal Radiology: The Requisites (Requisites in Radiology Series)

The Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology

Passover Anthology

Rosh Hashanah Holiday Anthology

The Sukkot/Simhat Torah Anthology

The Purim Anthology

Shavuot Anthology

The Yom Kippur Anthology