2020
DOI: 10.1111/psj.12408
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Feeling Politics: Carceral Contact, Well‐Being, and Participation

Abstract: How do criminal justice interactions affect political participation and through what mechanisms? In this new era of criminal justice expansion, the number of people who have had interactions and who will interact with the criminal justice system has increased significantly. Notwithstanding the abundant scholarship detailing the expansion of the carceral state, the subsequent increases in carceral contact, and the negative externalities of punitivity, we know little about the mechanisms that drive the observed … Show more

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“…Prior work on contact with the carceral state has primarily focused on personal contact (first-hand or direct contact an individual has, such as an arrest) and proximal contact (close but second-hand contact an individual has via a family member, friend, or loved one’s personal contact) 1 . Carceral contact reduces well-being, which in turn may undermine political participation (Davis 2021). Scholars studying personal and proximal contact tend to focus on two explanations for how such contact structures participation in electoral politics: (1) resources are stripped from an individual, such as time and funds, limiting or barring participation even if desired; and (2) it alienates and stigmatizes individuals by communicating that they do not belong, teaching that they should not participate in government or the system, resulting in what Monica Bell (2017) terms “legal estrangement.” Similarly, Davis (2020) finds that lower participation is an indirect effect of reduced civic duty and governmental trust attributable to carceral contact.…”
Section: Prior Work On Police Contact and Perceptionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Prior work on contact with the carceral state has primarily focused on personal contact (first-hand or direct contact an individual has, such as an arrest) and proximal contact (close but second-hand contact an individual has via a family member, friend, or loved one’s personal contact) 1 . Carceral contact reduces well-being, which in turn may undermine political participation (Davis 2021). Scholars studying personal and proximal contact tend to focus on two explanations for how such contact structures participation in electoral politics: (1) resources are stripped from an individual, such as time and funds, limiting or barring participation even if desired; and (2) it alienates and stigmatizes individuals by communicating that they do not belong, teaching that they should not participate in government or the system, resulting in what Monica Bell (2017) terms “legal estrangement.” Similarly, Davis (2020) finds that lower participation is an indirect effect of reduced civic duty and governmental trust attributable to carceral contact.…”
Section: Prior Work On Police Contact and Perceptionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this issue, we have three collections of studies from three different theoretical approaches to the study of the policy process: Policy Feedback (e.g., Davis, 2021), Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) (e.g., Park & Sapotichine, 2020), and the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) (e.g., Dolan, 2021). As we would expect from PSJ , the theoretical contributions in this issue are substantial: new pathways to efficacious behavior in policy feedback (Lacombe, 2022), a provocative theory‐method case by PET scholars for better understanding variance and incrementalism (Fernández‐i‐Marín et al, 2022), and modified hypotheses for MSF (DeLeo & Duarte, 2022), among other contributions.…”
Section: Improving Policy Process Theory: Policy Feedback Punctuated ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These findings add to the growing literature suggesting that increasing diversity in police forces could lead to important changes in policing behavior. Given the effects of carceral contact on political engagement (Davis, 2021), the implications of these findings are significant.…”
Section: Influences On Policy Implementationmentioning
confidence: 99%