Our book club has been reading about mass incarceration for months but we keep getting stuck on whether the problem is private prisons profiting off prisoners or deeper cultural beliefs about punishment and redemption. The conversations are becoming tense because some members take any criticism of punitive thinking as personal attacks on their values.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual exploration becomes personal conflict when examining systemic problems that implicate participants' own beliefs and values.
“Where Are You with Mass incarceration — causes and critique?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.