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- Title
Geography and Justice: Why Prison Location Matters in U.S. and International Theories of Criminal Punishment.
- Authors
Koh, Steven Arrigg
- Abstract
This Article is the first to analyze prison location and its relationship to U.S. and international theories of criminal punishment. Strangely, scholarly literature overlooks criminal prison designation procedures--the procedures by which a court or other institution designates the prison facility in which a recently convicted individual is to serve his or her sentence. This Article identifies this gap in the literature--the prison location omission--and fills it from three different vantage points: (1) U.S. procedural provisions governing prison designation; (2) international procedural provisions governing prison designation; and (3) the relationship between imprisonment and broader theories of criminal punishment. Through comparison of U.S. and international prison designation systems, this Article argues that prison location materially advances core rationales of criminal punishment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LOCATION of prisons; PUNISHMENT; INTERNATIONAL Covenant on Civil &; Political Rights (1966); REHABILITATION of criminals; INTERNATIONAL Tribunal for Rwanda; PUNISHMENT in crime deterrence; TRANSITIONAL justice -- Social aspects; UNITED States. Constitution
- Publication
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2013, Vol 46, Issue 5, p1267
- ISSN
0090-2594
- Publication type
Article