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DESCRIPTION:American criminal laws and criminal justice systems are harsher
 \, more punitive\, more afflicted by racial disparities and injustices\, m
 ore indifferent to suffering\, and less respectful of human dignity than t
 hose of other Western countries. The explanations usually offered—rising
  crime rates in the 1970s and 1980s\, public anger and anxiety\, crime con
 trol politics\, neoliberal economic and social policies—are fundamentall
 y incomplete. The deeper explanations are four features of American histor
 y 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 element
 s are the history of American race relations\, the evolution of Protestant
  fundamentalism\, local election of judges and prosecutors\, and the conti
 nuing influence of political and social values that emerged during three c
 enturies of Western expansion. The last\, encapsulated in Frederick Jackso
 n Turner’s “frontier thesis\,” is interwoven with the other three. T
 ogether\, they explain long-term characteristics of American criminal just
 ice and the extraordinary severity of penal policies and practices since t
 he 1970.\nSpeaker: Prof. Michael Tonry (Affiliate Researcher of the Max Pl
 anck Institute's Department of Criminology and External Scientific Member 
 of the Max Planck Society)
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LOCATION:Freiburg\, Fürstenbergstr. 19\, Room: Seminar room (F113) | Guest
 s are welcome\; please registrate
ORGANIZER;CN="Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
 ":mailto:c.hillemanns@csl.mpg.de
SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Determinants of Penal Policy: The Influence of Front
 ier Values and Race Relations on American Criminal Justice 
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