Search results on prisons and punishment - FALL 2022 Ethics

Search Results on Prisons and Punishment -- Fall 2022 Ethics

• Optional Extra Credit, Due Wednesday at 6pm: Assignment: Search for information and resources (including video) on incarceration, causes of crime, cultural comparisons of recidivism, crime, and punishment. Report your results using this form to receive 3pts on your PP1 paper grade. Report your results using this google form.

• Some basic “data visualizations” on prisons and incarceration:

• The Atlantic, data visualization on incarceration of African Americans [1]
• Data visualization on mass incarceration. [2]

• Some videos/websites about prisons:

• Prison Policy Initiative Prison Policy Initiative]: A good up-to-date overview of prison facts and some popular myths about the US prison system.
• Norwegian prison, [3]
• US Supermax prison, “Red Onion” [4]
• ”When kids do hard time,” Wabash Prison, [5]

• Neurobiology and crime: A neuro-ethical perspective - ScienceDirect

• With the following quote that I found pretty interesting – “The environment plays an important role in shaping brain development and functioning, and due to ongoing brain plasticity, significant changes may occur in adulthood as well. Studies suggest that cognitive-emotional training can improve cognitive, emotional and interpersonal competencies in children and adults”. This seems to suggest that rehabilitative efforts in adulthood can have significant effects, further supporting an anti-retributive approach.

• Interesting considerations around adolescents and crime: Neuroscientific insights and the Dutch adolescent criminal law: A brief report - ScienceDirect

• Depression and “delinquency”: The linkage between mental health, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency: Results from the Boricua Youth Study - ScienceDirect

• How the current prison climate affects not only prisoners, but guards negatively: An opportunity model of safety risks among jail officers - ScienceDirect

• And, finally, Differential Coercion Theory: Differential Coercion, Street Youth, and Violent Crime | Office of Justice Programs (ojp.gov)

• video about prisoners and conditions at a Federal min security prison. [6]