Despite its increasing visibility as a social issue, mass incarceration - and its inconsistency with core democratic ideals - rarely surfaces in contemporary political theory. Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration seeks to overcome this puzzling disconnect by deepening the dialogue between democratic theory and punishment policy.

• Chapter 1: Punishment and Democratic Theory: Resources for a Better Penal Politics, Albert Dzur, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks


• Chapter 2: Democratic Politics in an Age of Mass Incarceration, Rebecca U. Thorpe


• Chapter 3: Civic Punishment, R. A. Duff and S. E. Marshall


• Chapter 4: Playing Fair with Imprisonment, Richard Dagger


• Chapter 5: A Democratic Theory of Imprisonment, Peter Ramsay


• Chapter 6: Why Greater Public Participation in Criminal Justice?, Christopher Bennett


• Chapter 7: Punitive Restoration: Giving the Public a Say on Sentencing, Thom Brooks


• Chapter 8: After Penal Populism: Punishment, Democracy and Utopian Method, Lynne Copson


• Chapter 9: Liberty, Justice, and All: The Folly of "Doing Good by Stealth", David A. Green


• Chapter 10: Mass Incarceration and "Public Opinion" on Crime and Justice: from Democratic Theory to Method and Reality, Elizabeth R. Turner


• Chapter 11: A Tradeoff Between Democracy and Deterrence? An Empirical Investigation of Prison Violence and Inmate Advisory Councils, Amy Lerman and Vesla Weaver


• Chapter 12: Violent Crime, Constitutional Frameworks and Mass Publics, Lisa L. Miller


• Chapter 13: Democracy all the Way Down. Deliberative Democracy and Criminal Law: The Case of Social Protests, Roberto Gargarella

Albert W. Dzur is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.
Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Professorial Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also a co-director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.