TY - JOUR
T1 - Contention and the pendulum pivot
T2 - Weighting equal justice
AU - Ward, Geoff K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Bar Foundation.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - In Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice (2017), Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps advocate replacing the pendular notion of penal change with an agonistic approach, where contention is central. This Essay reflects on a pendulum component that has escaped theoretical or empirical scrutiny in pendular accounts of penal change: the pivot determining how freely a pendulum weight swings, and its resting equilibrium. In this parting glance at the pendulum heuristic, I relate this pivot to the agonistic perspective on punishment and-focusing on racial politics of juvenile justice-imagine an antiracist calibration of struggle over penal change.
AB - In Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice (2017), Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps advocate replacing the pendular notion of penal change with an agonistic approach, where contention is central. This Essay reflects on a pendulum component that has escaped theoretical or empirical scrutiny in pendular accounts of penal change: the pivot determining how freely a pendulum weight swings, and its resting equilibrium. In this parting glance at the pendulum heuristic, I relate this pivot to the agonistic perspective on punishment and-focusing on racial politics of juvenile justice-imagine an antiracist calibration of struggle over penal change.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85069505041
U2 - 10.1017/lsi.2019.40
DO - 10.1017/lsi.2019.40
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069505041
SN - 0897-6546
VL - 44
SP - 806
EP - 813
JO - Law and Social Inquiry
JF - Law and Social Inquiry
IS - 3
ER -