{"id":1238,"date":"2010-11-02T23:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2010-11-02T23:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:40:44","slug":"civic-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2010\/11\/02\/civic-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"civic responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As I sit here listening to election results on the west coast, I’m reminded that it is both privilege and a responsibility to vote.\u00a0 I didn’t always feel that way – as a working class kid, I was never really convinced that my vote “counted”.\u00a0 I’m still not sure one vote makes a significant difference, but I do know that I owe it to my incarcerated students to vote knowledgeably and responsibly on issues that concern us all.\u00a0 And I owe it to my on-campus students to set an example of civic responsibility.<\/p>\n

Chris and I wrote a small paper last year on “The Price and Promise of Citizenship<\/a>,” in which we argued the United States should extend the vote to non-incarcerated felons.\u00a0\u00a0 My favorite critique\/response<\/a> said that we were too modest in our goals and didn’t take the argument far enough.\u00a0 I have several former “inside” students out in the community now – released from prison and building new lives for themselves.\u00a0 I hope they voted in this election and made sure they had a voice in local politics for the first time in a long time, perhaps for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

In Oregon, we vote entirely by mail.\u00a0 Although the mail-in vote is definitely convenient, I miss the camaraderie of waiting in line at my local polling place for my moment in the booth.\u00a0 I miss feeling the connection to the community, but I vote anyway, taking my civic duty seriously.\u00a0 When you are fortunate enough to have a voice, it is both a privilege and responsibility to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I sit here listening to election results on the west coast, I’m reminded that it is both privilege and a responsibility to vote.\u00a0 I didn’t always feel that way – as a working class kid, I was never really convinced that my vote “counted”.\u00a0 I’m still not sure one vote makes a significant difference, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}