"We’re Free, But Not Free": Custodial Citizenship in Our Time
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2014-10-22
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Swarthmore College
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Political Science
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Vesla Weaver (Yale University) is co-author of the pioneering study, Arresting
Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
(University of Chicago Press, 2014). It documents the full significance
for American democracy of the little-known fact that one-third of
America's adult population has a criminal record due to aggressive
police surveillance of communities. Contact with the criminal justice
system has profoundly shaped these citizens' views of democracy and
government. It has created a hidden but deep division in our country
between those Americans who have records, even if they have no
convictions, and those who do not.