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13 - Ezekiel and Criminal Justice Reform

from Part III - Prophetic Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

By
C. L. Crouch
Edited by
C. L. Crouch
C. L. Crouch
Affiliation:
Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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Summary

Few Americans are aware that someone convicted of a crime in the United States emerges from the courtroom condemned to a lifetime of discrimination. Individuals with a criminal record are required to declare their conviction to prospective employers, who are overwhelmingly averse to hiring them, and to prospective landlords, who are averse to housing them. They are prohibited from practicing a wide range of professions, many of which bear no relation whatsoever to the crime they may have committed. They are barred from public housing and limited in their recourse to food stamps and other forms of government assistance, if not outright prohibited from it. These and other forms of systemic, legalized discrimination against individuals with criminal records means that the end of a prison sentence marks not the end of punishment, but only a transition to its next stage.

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The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics , pp. 192 - 207
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Alexander, M. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Rev. ed. New York: New Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Coates, T. “The Black Family in the Age of Incarceration,” in We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, 223–81. New York: One World, 2017.Google Scholar
Joyce, P. M. Divine Initiative and Human Response in Ezekiel. Sheffield: JSOT, 1989.Google Scholar
Lapsley, J. E. Can These Bones Live? The Problem of the Moral Self in the Book of Ezekiel. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000.Google Scholar
Mol, J. Collective and Individual Responsibility: A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20. Boston: Brill, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pager, D. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Perkinson, R. Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire. New York: Picador, 2010.Google Scholar

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