Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2005
Subjects
prison; prisoners' rights; voting rights; punitiveness
Abstract
This book chapter examines a successful prisoner voting rights case in Canada and suggests that the opposition in the U.S. to postincarceration legal, social, and economic consequences of criminal conviction would benefit from attention to the way the continued construction of prisoners as temporary outcasts resonates positively in society, assisting to legitimate the myriad penalties and consequences imposed on prisoners' release.
Citation Details
Debra Parkes, "Prisoner Voting Rights in Canada: Rejecting the Notion of Temporary Outcasts" in Christopher Mela & Teresa A Miller eds, Civil Penalties, Social Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2005) 237.