The Politics Of Punishment: The Role Of Elected Officials In Jones County Jail

How do political incentives and pressures affect the decisions of district attorneys? During the era of rising incarceration, the political landscape may have incentivized elected officials to enact. Political and other determinants of state imprisonment rates. The short explanation is that democratic countries have prisons that electoral majorities want or will tolerate, but that raises the question of why wants and tolerances vary so widely. I attempt to address this question by examining the key political explanations of prison populations and the unit of analysis and data limitation obstacles that make it difficult to conduct a.

Despite considerable theoretical interest, little is known about the political determinants of punishment. Focusing on the politics of punishment, this study offered a model of how the courts contribute to local stability and maintain local political support in the course of mediating the.