• Acknowledgments


• 1. Three Puzzles about Crime, Punishment, and the Death of the American Jury


• 2. The Myth of Penal Populism


• 3. Participatory Democracy and Rational Disorganization


• 4. The Jury as a Civic Schoolhouse


• 5. Democracy in the Court: Lay Contributions to Justice


• 6. Juries, Juries, Everywhere (But Not Inside the Courts)


• 7. Reviving the Jury: Active Juries, Juror Activism, and Institutional Change


• 8. Public Justice vs. the Penal State^


• Bibliography


• Index

Albert W. Dzur is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Bowling Green State University and author of Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice (Penn State, 2008)

Focusing democratic theory on the pressing issue of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for participatory institutional designs as antidotes to the American penal state. Citizen action in institutions like the jury and restorative justice programs can foster the attunement, reflectiveness, and full-bodied communication needed as foundations for widespread civic responsibility for criminal justice.