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Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Citizenship and Status Honor: Pre-modern Origins of the Contemporary American Practice of Felon Disenfranchisement 11 Introduction 11 1. Max Weber's Concept of Status Honor 13 2. Status Honor Institutionalized: Citizenship in the "Republican" Tradition 15 3. The Punishment of Atimia in Athens and Sparta 21 4. The Roman Infamia 26 5. Infamy, Civil Death, Attainder, and "felony" in European and American Law 29 Conclusion 36 CHAPTER TWO: Felon Disenfranchisement and the Problem of Double Citizenship 39 Introduction: The Scholarly Critique 41 1. The Problem of Double Citizenship in the United States 45 2. Compound Citizenship: Theoretical Perspectives 53 3. Republican Citizenship 57 4. Democratic Citizenship: Growing in "Ordered Richness" 62 5. Democratic Individuality 68 6. Failures of Democratic Recognition 80 CHAPTER THREE: Representation, Reconstruction, and American Atimia 83 Introduction 83 1. Atimia in the American Context of Representative Government and Party Competition 86 2. The Administrative Imperative of Black Citizenship and the Issue of White Vote Dilution 89 3. The Criminal Justice System as a Representative Institution 94 4. Vote Dilution, Individual Rights and The Warren Court 103 5. Political Inequality of "Qualified" American Citizens 110 6. Representational versus Electoral Equality 111 CHAPTER FOUR: Judicial Justifications of Felon Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Crime and Punishment 125 Introduction 125 1. The Neo-Contractarian Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement 130 2. The Communitarian or "Republican" Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement 140 3. The Political Justification of Felon Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Law and Order 144 4. The Criminal Justice System as a Continuum of Moments 148 CHAPTER FIVE: The Double Polity Identified 153 Introduction 153 1. Overview of Retributive Theory 162 2. The Moral, or Reforming Justification of Punishment 166 3. The Concept of "Crime" 169 4. Crime, Justice, and Impunity 172 5. The Racial Contract 174 6. A Postcolonial Perspective on the American Punishment Polity 177 7. The Colonial Identity and Racialized Space 181 Conclusion and Summary 186 ENDNOTES 191 REFERENCES 247 INDEX 267
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Suffrage -- United States.
Prisoners -- Suffrage -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.