RT Article
T1 Lifetime Felony Disenfranchisement in Florida, Texas, and Iowa: Symbolic and Instrumental Law
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 1
SP 79
OP 94
A1 Sennott, Christie
A1 Galliher, John F. 1937-
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174715766X
AB Part of a special issue on immigration rights and national insecurity. The writers discuss lifetime felony disenfranchisement (LFD) laws, which are well known to have much of their origins in American racism and the Civil War. They demonstrate how the instrumental use of LFD law has continued unabated in Florida and how the distinction between instrumental law and symbolic law—the former intended to control behavior and the latter more concerned with using law to make a public statement—can be used to explain the repeal of LFD legislation in Texas and its retention in Iowa. They show how state institutions organize and enforce racial politics through policies that were once explicitly and are now implicitly racial.
K1 Prison reform
K1 Parole
K1 Human Behavior
K1 Race discrimination
K1 African American suffrage
K1 Federal laws
K1 American law
K1 Political Science
K1 History
K1 African Americans -- Southern States
K1 History of criminals
K1 History of crime
K1 History of race relations in the United States
K1 Prisoners -- Suffrage