{"id":5212,"date":"2022-04-09T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:40:30","slug":"tonry-on-fatalism-and-indifference-the-influence-of-the-frontier-on-american-criminal-justice-uofmnlawschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/tonry-on-fatalism-and-indifference-the-influence-of-the-frontier-on-american-criminal-justice-uofmnlawschool\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonry on Fatalism and Indifference: The Influence of the Frontier on American Criminal Justice @UofMNLawSchool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities School of Law, is publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3936107&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_criminal:law:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatalism and Indifference\u2014The Influence of the Frontier on American Criminal Justice<\/a> in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American criminal laws and criminal justice systems are harsher, more punitive, more afflicted by racial disparities and injustices, more indifferent to suffering, and less respectful of human dignity than those of other Western countries. The explanations usually offered\u2014rising crime rates in the 1970s and 1980s, public anger and anxiety, crime control politics, neoliberal economic and social policies\u2014are fundamentally incomplete. The deeper explanations are four features of American history and culture that shaped values, attitudes, and beliefs and produced a political culture in which suffering is fatalistically accepted and policy makers are largely indifferent to individual injustices. The four elements are the history of American race relations, the evolution of Protestant fundamentalism, local election of judges and prosecutors, and the continuing influence of political and social values that emerged during three centuries of western expansion. The last, encapsulated in Frederick Jackson Turner\u2019s \u201cfrontier thesis,\u201d is interwoven with the other three. Together, they explain long-term characteristics of American criminal justice and the extraordinary severity of penal policies and practices since the 1970s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities School of Law, is publishing Fatalism and Indifference\u2014The Influence of the Frontier on American Criminal Justice in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research. Here is the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[529,132],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-history","tag-legal-history","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}