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Punishment Beyond the Legal Offender

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Comfort, Megan·2007·Annual Review of Law and Social Science
DOI 10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112829
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In the United States, lawbreakers are treated as social isolates, and the sentences imposed upon them are conceived of as affecting a discrete individual. However, people who commit or are suspected of committing crimes are generally embedded in kinship webs and social networks that draw others into the ambit of the state's punishment apparatus. Through their association with someone convicted of a crime, legally innocent people have firsthand and often intense contact with criminal justice authorities and correctional facilities, they experience variants of the direct and indirect consequences of incarceration, and they are confronted by the paradox of a penal state that has become the primary distributor of social services for the poor in the United States. Collectively, studies investigating punishment beyond the offender contribute to the understanding of the wide and multi-faceted impact of punitive sanctions and spotlight the importance of considering this full range of repercussions when evaluating the scope of the nation's policing, judicial, and correctional policies.

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Authors
Comfort, M.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Comfort, Megan
ORCID
Comfort, Megan
Venue
Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2007-12-01
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
271-296
ISSN
  • 1550-3585 (ISSN-L)
  • 1550-3631
DOI
10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112829
OpenAlex
W2127755023
Cited by
326
References
113
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-sa
Locations
Annual Review of Law and Social Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Law and Policy
Keywords
collateral consequences of incarceration, family networks, penal state, judicial policy, correctional policy, punitive measures

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