Public Policy Center, University of Nebraska
Date of this Version
2005
Abstract
We are committed to advocating social justice and find Mead a rich theorist for
analyzing and developing responses to crime in America. The contemporary
adoption of punitive justice in the criminal justice system exhibits all the flaws
that Mead identified in 1918. Here we document that Mead's perspective
remains viable and points to the need for a more progressive response to crime.
In fact, we argue that Mead's perspective parallels a current movement in
corrections, knows as Restorative Justice.
Comments
Published by Neeley & Deegan in Humanity and Society (February 2005) 29(1).
Copyright 2005, Association for Humanist Sociology. Used by permission.