Falmouth Jewish Congregation invites everyone to a free, virtual author talk by legal scholar Judith Resnik to mark the MLK National Holiday and continue to reflect on American society within the context of the legacy of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement
"Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy" - An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment’s purposes and prisoners’ rights.
Tuesday, January 20 at 7:30pm
Register in advance for this free, hour-long virtual program on Zoom | https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aK2UOZe9TH69hhjThAmA1A
Impermissible Punishments explores the history of punishment inside prisons and how governments grappled with obligations to justify the punishments they impose. Legal scholar Judith Resnik charts the creation of the corrections profession and weaves together the stories of people who made rules for prisons and the stories of those living under the resulting regimes.
Resnik maps three centuries of shifting ideas, norms, and legal standards aiming to draw lines between permissible and impermissible punishments. Her account documents the impact of World War II, the United Nations, the US Civil Rights movement, and the pioneering prisoners who insisted that law should protect their individual dignity. Taking us to the present, Resnik analyzes the expansion of imprisonment, the inability of public and private prisons to provide safe housing, and the impact of abolition politics.
Exploring the interdependency of people in and out of prisons, Impermissible Punishments examines what governments committed to equality owe to the people they detain and argues that many contemporary forms of punishment need to end.
Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has authored many works, including Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms.
Resnik maps three centuries of shifting ideas, norms, and legal standards aiming to draw lines between permissible and impermissible punishments. Her account documents the impact of World War II, the United Nations, the US Civil Rights movement, and the pioneering prisoners who insisted that law should protect their individual dignity. Taking us to the present, Resnik analyzes the expansion of imprisonment, the inability of public and private prisons to provide safe housing, and the impact of abolition politics.
Exploring the interdependency of people in and out of prisons, Impermissible Punishments examines what governments committed to equality owe to the people they detain and argues that many contemporary forms of punishment need to end.
Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has authored many works, including Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms.