L’"altra" pena di morte: l’ergastolo negli Stati Uniti

Journal title SICUREZZA E SCIENZE SOCIALI
Author/s Emilio C. Viano
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 127-148 File size 149 KB
DOI 10.3280/SISS2014-001011
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

The sentence of life in prison, with or without possibility of parole, is imposed quite frequently in the United States, differently than in most developed countries. This work examines the historical and cultural reasons behind such practice and critically examines why the reasons used to justify such penalty do not work and why this penalty is actually counterproductive and deeply damaging to society. The article also examines recent correctional trends in the United States, pointing out powerful forces and interests that support the harsh and punitive correctional system generally operating in the country.

  1. L. Aaron and D.H. Dallaire, Parental Incarceration and Multiple Risk Experiences: Effects on Family Dynamics and Children’s Delinquency, J. Youth Adolesc. 39 (12) Dec. 2010:1471-84. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-009-9458-
  2. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly, June 2012; “https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/elderlyprisonreport_20120613_0.pdf”https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/elderlyprisonreport_20120613_0.pdf; accessed on July 9, 2013
  3. Kelly Bedard and Eric Helland, The Location of Women’s Prison and the Deterrent Effect of ‘Harder’ Time, 2002; “http://econ.ucsb.edu/~kelly/prison.pdf” http://econ.ucsb.edu/~kelly/prison.pdf, accessed on July 3, 2013
  4. Catholic Bishops, Challenges for the Criminal Justice Process in the South, 2010; “http://www.catholiclabor.org/church-doc/CBS-1.htm”http://www.catholiclabor.org/church-doc/CBS-1.htm; accessed on July 9, 2013
  5. Tina Chiu, It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release, New York: Vera Institute of Justice, April 2010; http://www.vera.org/download?file=2973/Its-about-time-aging-prisoners-increasing-costs-and-geriatric-release.pdf, accessed on July 9, 2013
  6. George E. Conklin, “Family Ties, Depression and Adjustment of Women in Prison in North Carolina,” Sociation 26 (3): 2
  7. European Court of Human Rights, Vinter and others v United Kingdom (application nos. 66069/09, 130/10 and 3896/10)
  8. Federal Bureau of Prisons, Quick Facts About the Bureau of Prisons. Washington DC, 2013; “http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp” http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp (accessed on July 2, 2013)
  9. Human Rights Watch, “http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/02/state-distribution-juvenile-offenders-serving-juvenile-life-without-parole”State Distribution of Youth Offenders Serving Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP), 2009
  10. International Business Times, “http://www.ibtimes.com/catherine-kieu-found-guilty-cutting-husbands-penis-southern-california-woman-convicted-torture”Catherine Kieu Found Guilty Of Cutting Off Husband’s Penis; Southern California Woman Convicted Of Torture, Aggravated Mayhem”, April 29, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
  11. Caroline Isaacs and Matthew Lowen, Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails, AFSC Arizona, May 2008; “http://www.afsc.org/az/documents/buried-alive.pdf; accessed on July 9, 2013
  12. Justice Policy Institute, “Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety,” Washington, DC: January 2008, p. 1 “http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf”http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf
  13. Justice Policy Institute, Department of Justice 2010 Budget Likely to Increase Incarceration in U.S., Washington DC 2010, “http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/09-05_FAC_FY2010%20Budget%20Factsheet_PS.pdf”; accessed on July 7, 2013
  14. Scarlet Kim, Taylor Pendergass and Helen Zelon, Boxed in: The True Cost of Extreme Isolation in New York, New York ACLU, October 2012; “http://www.nyclu.org/files/publications/nyclu_boxedin_FINAL.pdf” accessed on July 9, 2013
  15. D.W. Makariev and P.R. Shaver, Attachment, Parental Incarceration and Possibilities for Intervention: An overview, Attach Hum Dev.12 (4), July 2010: 311-31. DOI: 10.1080/1475179090341693
  16. Laura M. Maruschak and Erika Parks, Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Probation and Parole in the United States, 2011”, Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, November 2012), NCJ 239686, Appendix Table 2, p. 26, and Appendix Table 3, p. 17. “http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ppus11.pdf” http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ppus11.pdf
  17. J. Murray and L. Murray, Parental Incarceration, Attachment and Child Psychopathology, Attach Hum. Dev. 12 (4) July 2010: 289-309. DOI: 10.1080/1475179090341688
  18. National Post, Crime Rates Continue to Drop Across Canada, 21 July 2011
  19. Vicky Pelaez, The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a new Form of Slavery? Global Research, January 2, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289; accessed on July 9, 2013
  20. Amanda Petteruti and Nastassia Walsh, Jailing Communities: The Impact of Jail Expansion and Effective Jail Expansion and Public Safety Strategies, Washington DC: Justice Policy Institute, 2008 http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/08-04_rep_jailingcommunities_ac.pdf; accessed on July 4, 2013
  21. Pew Center on the States, Prison Count 2010:State Population Declines for the First Time in 38 Years, Washington DC: The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010
  22. Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, One in 100, Washington DC: 2008; http://www.pewstates.org/research/reports/one-in-100-85899374411; accessed on July 4, 2012.
  23. Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, High Cost, Low Return, Washington DC, 2012; http://www.pewstates.org/research/data-visualizations/the-high-cost-of-corrections-in-america-85899397897; accessed on July 4, 2013
  24. J. Poehlmann, D. Dallaire, A.B. Loper, L.D. “http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Shear%20LD%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=20822198”Shear LD, Children’s Contact with Their Incarcerated Parents: Research Findings and Recommendations, Am. Psychol. 65 (6), Sep. 2010: 575-98
  25. Emily Sanders and Rachel Dunifon, Children of Incarcerated Parents, Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 2011
  26. John Schmitt, Kris Warner and Sarika Gupta, The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration, Washington DC: Center for Economic Policy Research, 2010; http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ex-offenders-2010-11.pdf; accessed on July 8, 2013
  27. John Schmitt and Chris Warner, Ex-Offenders and the Labor Market, Washington DC: Center for Economic Policy Research, 2010 http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ex-offenders-2010-11.pdf; accessed on July 4, 2013
  28. Sentencing Project, Incarceration and Crime: A Complex Relationship, Washington DC 2005; http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_iandc_complex.pdf
  29. (accessed on July 3. 2013)
  30. Sentencing Project, The State of Sentencing, 2009, Washington DC, 2009; “http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/s_ssr2009Update.pdf” http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/s_ssr2009Update.pdf (accessed on June 29, 2013)
  31. John R. Sutton, “Symbol and Substance: The Effects of California Three Strikes Law on Felony Sentencing,” Law and Society Review 47 (2013) 1: 37-72
  32. Robert Weisberg, Debbie A. Mukamal, and Jordan D. Segall, Life in Limbo: An Examination of Parole Release for Prisoners Serving Life Sentences with the Possibility of Parole in California, Stanford Law School, 2011
  33. Bruce Western and Becky Pettit, Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility, Washington DC: Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project and its Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP), September 2010; http://www.pewstates.org/research/reports/collateral-costs- -85899373309‎; accessed on July 8, 2013

Emilio C. Viano, L’"altra" pena di morte: l’ergastolo negli Stati Uniti in "SICUREZZA E SCIENZE SOCIALI" 1/2014, pp 127-148, DOI: 10.3280/SISS2014-001011