http://texastough.com The history of race, politics and criminal justice in Texas and beyond. Sun, 16 May 2010 02:26:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://texastough.com/2010/01/07/john-irwin-will-be-missed/ http://texastough.com/2010/01/07/john-irwin-will-be-missed/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:52:40 +0000 Perk http://texastough.com/?p=413 John Irwin, a most lucid critic of American criminal justice in both its rehabilitative and warehousing incarnations, had a pronounced influence on my own work. His writing on the internal cultural dynamics of California’s liberal penology of the 1950s and 1960s advanced the humanitarian skepticism of path-breakers like Donald Clemmer and Gresham Sykes and brilliantly combined sociology and autobiography. My heart goes out to Katy and her family who will miss him more than we will.

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