Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration

King, Desmond; Page, Jennifer M.

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“…Rigorous evaluation and scaling of such interventions will be crucial to efforts to end IPV perpetration among male survivors of CJS contact. Viewing their trauma as a casualty of state violence sharpens the imperative of publicly supported repair and reparation (Gump, 2014; King & Page, 2018).…”

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When State Violence Comes Home: From Criminal Legal System Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in a Time of Mass Incarceration

McKay

2022

J Interpers Violence

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Exceptionally high rates of partner violence perpetration are evident among men returning from prison. Two bodies of scholarship, one on family stress and another on exposure to state violence, each suggest that criminal legal system exposure could promote partner violence perpetration via changes in men’s behavioral health and interpersonal approach and in couples’ conflict dynamics. Such relationships have not been tested in quantitative research. Structural equation models were fitted to longitudinal, couples-based survey data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering. Participants included men returning from a state prison term in five U.S. states ( N = 1112) and their committed intimate or co-parenting partners ( N = 1112). Models tested hypothesized pathways from three dimensions of criminal legal system exposure to later partner violence perpetration. In fitted models, men’s childhood criminal legal system exposure predicts their post-prison partner violence perpetration via adult post-traumatic stress symptoms, reactivity, avoidance, and dysfunctional couple conflict dynamics. Men’s cumulative criminal legal system exposure in adulthood predicts their post-prison partner violence perpetration via addiction and dysfunctional couple conflict. These initial results suggest that mass-scale incarceration could worsen partner violence via men’s psychological and interpersonal adaptations to criminal legal system contact, particularly when such contact is sustained or occurs at a developmentally significant period in the life course.

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When State Violence Comes Home: From Criminal Legal System Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in a Time of Mass Incarceration

McKay

2022

J Interpers Violence

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“…Such deeply racialized struggles over public memory have resulted in two incomplete processes of democratization conducive to racial justice and trust in institutions. As several scholars argued (Foner, 1998;King and Page, 2018;Valls, 2003), the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s conform to the paradigm of democratic transition, which allegedly rejects past systematic human rights violations. Both transitions failed to bring accountability and redress for African Americans.…”

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Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe

Ciobanu

Şerban

2021

Memory Studies

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The article examines how the experiences of post-communist transitional justice policies could inform current controversies in the United States regarding its reckoning with the past. To lay the ground for this analysis, three facets of American exceptionalism—the dual state reality, the triumphalist myth, and the denialist myth—are identified as principal obstacles that have preempted any substantive reparations for the crimes against humanity perpetrated against enslaved Africans and their descendants. This is followed by a presentation of how the 1989 revolutions in East and Central Europe failed to promote an inclusive and pluralistic model of the past. Instead, current representations of the past rooted in essentialist and ethnocentric historical narratives are weaponized by non-democratic political actors. Finally, the authors caution against misguided representations of historical trauma and memory wars in the United States that could potentially reproduce White supremacist ideologies and escalate existent political and cultural divisions.

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“…Let us begin by looking more closely at the question of whether Global North countries can be characterized as “transitional.” Authors like Andrew Valls (2003), Stephen Winter (2014), and ourselves (King and Page, 2018) have argued that the tools of transitional justice—truth commissions, reparations, memorialization and memory projects, political apologies, and so on—can help these nations grapple with legacies of violence and exclusion. Using these tools, a society with formally democratic features, such as democratic elections, can work toward becoming a more substantive democracy.…”

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Truth and Reparation for the U.S. Imprisonment and Policing Regime

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King

2021

Du Bois Rev.

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In the literature on transitional justice, there is disagreement about whether countries like the United States can be characterized as transitional societies. Though it is widely recognized that transitional justice mechanisms such as truth commissions and reparations can be used by Global North nations to address racial injustice, some consider societies to be transitional only when they are undergoing a formal democratic regime change. We conceptualize the political situation of low-income Black communities under the U.S. imprisonment and policing regime in terms of three criteria for identifying transitional contexts: normalized collective and political wrongdoing, pervasive structural inequality, and the failure of the rule of law. That these criteria are met, however, does not necessarily mean that a transition is taking place. Drawing on the American political development and abolition democracy literatures, we discuss what it would mean for the United States to transition out of its present imprisonment and policing regime. A transitional justice perspective shows the importance of not only pushing for truth and reparation, but for an actual transition.

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Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration

Cited by 4 publications

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When State Violence Comes Home: From Criminal Legal System Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in a Time of Mass Incarceration

When State Violence Comes Home: From Criminal Legal System Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in a Time of Mass Incarceration

Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe

Truth and Reparation for the U.S. Imprisonment and Policing Regime

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