Carceral Geography

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Contemporary carceral systems function through the restriction of physical movement and the regulation of information flows, so how do prisoners' smuggled mobile technologies renegotiate mobilities in carceral spaces? Grounded in the new mobilities paradigm and drawing on the concept of carceral mobilities, this study proposes the framework of digital carceral mobilities to analyze new possibilities of embodied and digital mobilities enabled using illicit mobile technologies in prisons. Using Lebanon's carceral institutions as a case study and based on digital ethnography of three Facebook pages, an analysis of recordings circulated by prisoners via social media and news outlets from 2020 to 2023, and a contextual interview with a former prisoner, the paper categorizes four key modalities of digital carceral mobilities: embodied mobility, mediated mobility, spatiotemporal mobility, and material mobility. This paper argues that prisoners renegotiate mobile technologiesboth material and networkallowing them to relay their lived experiences and harsh conditions behind bars and explore new possibilities of movement within the carceral space. The framework of digital carceral mobilities demonstrates that mobility within carceral spaces is inherently paradoxical, functioning simultaneously as a pathway to potential agency, through enabling new possibilities of embodied and virtual movements, and as an extension of confinement under the guise of connectivity, by reinforcing the oppressive and socioeconomic inequalities of the carceral, political, and digital systems.

This essay explores the ways prisoners use writing to re-make and reimagine their relationship to carceral space. Focusing on the writings of politically progressive prisoner writings or carceral script in the post-Civil Rights era, I contend that these prisoners used their relationship to landscapes of punishment and confinement to develop critical perspectives about space. They also created alternative sites within prison that enabled them to counter the banishing geography of incarceration and to remake its punitive spatiality. Thus, writing becomes a portal to a different place; it is a means of resisting. This study reveals how space is linked to struggles for social justice within prison. "Walls turned sideways are bridges." 2 Angela Y. Davis An Autobiography

This essay attempts a reflection on rurality and herding by looking at a particular carceral setting: the Sardinian penal colony as established in the 19th c. and still surviving as a marginal institution within the national penal system. Despite the long-lasting effort to modernise and stabilise animal-farming and to eradicate herding as an allegedly criminogenic practice – effort to which penal colonies actively contributed both by dispossessing land used by the herders and by means of exemplarity as a model sedentary farm - errant herding has lingered in free society and also, in an apparent paradox, within the very carceral estates of the penal colony. I will discuss
how, within the territorial project of the Sardinian penal colonies and its uncertain, yet extensive, structures of control and production, herding and the wondering of the herder after goats, sheep, and cattle in search for pastures and waters, is to a certain extent a creative practice whose spatial agency simultaneously challenges and is challenged by the spatial and institutional principles of the prison estate. This essay is grounded on archival and field research in the penal colonies of Mamone, Isili, and Is Arenas and makes use of drawings and photographs as key research tools.

Avec le « tsunami blanc » de la cocaïne, sommet visible de l’iceberg d’un narcotrafic en pleine expansion, et les innombrables crimes et délits qu’il engendre dans son sillon (prostitution, vol, meurtre, racket, chantage, torture, etc.), les conditions de sécurité des Français et de la France ne pourront qu’empirer. « Mettre les méchants en prison » ou les éloigner de la société semble a priori une bonne idée pour le citoyen lambda.

Cependant, en rester là, en faisant simplement plus de l’existant, sans attaquer les problèmes à la source, revient à jeter de l’essence sur l’embrasement en cours. Car tant que les individus qui sortent de prison se retrouvent, tant sur le plan psychologique que social et économique, dans un état pire qu’au moment de leur incarcération, le problème restera entier.

En réalité, c’est la prévention de la récidive par une réinsertion sociale (un sujet qui n’est pas à la mode) qui reste la mère de toutes les batailles. Si on la perd, on perdra toutes les autres.

In this paper we disclose an algorithm of the Spanish CJS that assesses risk and classifies the inmate within seven categories ranging from low risk to maximal risk. This, so-called TVR, is a Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) that serves as part of the decision-making process for granting prison leaves in one of the three prison systems of Spain. Although the factors and their levels involved in the TVR formula are known, we disclose here their associated weights and the complete procedure to determine the associated TVR risk level. Although this algorithm has been in use for thirty years and forms part of the prison system policy, it has remained undisclosed for the general public. Hence, it has not been subject of rigorous impartial assessment. In our research, we managed to find it within an unpublished source and therefore, we have been able to develop a quantitative assessment of it. Our research shows the TVR algorithm leads to a category of high, very high, extreme, or maximal risk in 99.3% of cases. Furthermore, out of the 6145 possible outcomes of the TVR algorithm, only 9 outcomes lead to a category of low or very low risk, what entails that there is evidence of bias towards false positives. This research provide light on some untransparent and unfair practices which affect the inmate reintegration processes of a current European prison system. By disclosing and detailing the procedure of the TVR algorithm, we encourage further assessment on the fairness and accuracy of this instrument. 1 There are three prison systems in Spain: the system of the State Administration (SGIP), the new Basque prison

Under Neoliberalism, the state retrenches from the realm of welfare and promotes the idea of laissez faire, but in modern times, the state has simultaneously rearmed itself in the punitive realm to curb social insecurity and urban marginality which is resultant of such economic deregulation. Wacquant and others argue that under the Neoliberal regime, the incarcerations do not merely reflect the rising crime rates but also mirror state inactions in the realm of welfare and proactiveness in the punitive realm. This paper advocates the use of political-economic analysis for understanding the socioeconomic dynamics of marginality and incarceration in India. The works of Loïc Wacquant form the bedrock of my analysis. Wacquant in his methodological approach debunks the opposition between the materialist approaches of Marx and Engels and the symbolic approach of Emile Durkheim and combines them using the notion of bureaucratic field developed by Pierre Bourdieu to establish a vital understanding of the relationship between political economy, state, and penal apparatus. After analyzing people management techniques of Workfare and Prisonfare, this paper will highlight how the State under Neoliberalism got restructured as a Leviathan through astute use of these techniques and the rhetoric of security. After highlighting the contributions of Young, Hallsworth, and Lea, and LeBaron, and Roberts, this paper concludes by stating how the Indian state is undergoing a similar transformation under Neoliberalism.

This article explores how new high-security prison models are being instrumentalized to suppress social and political dissent. Drawing on Turkey’s carceral expansion in recent years, it discusses the ideological, architectural, and institutional dimensions of this trend.

Originally published by Bianet on 1 October 2022.

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Much writing has been dedicated to: going over Marx’s usage of the term lumpen; contemporizing what we understand as lumpen identities and struggles; critiquing lumpen involvement in past revolutionary struggles; developing other terms to refer to the lumpen (informal, surplus, waste, etc.); and autobiographical accounts of lumpen life. However, rather than being understood within the greater class structure, the lumpen remain a marginal interest. Ultimately I aim to advance this discussion of the lumpen towards articulating a political identity for poor people in order to boost their struggles and claim their historical role in the fight for liberation.

Les États-Unis sont sans conteste une « grande » nation. De nombreuses raisons justifient cette affirmation. Cependant, le fait qu'ils continuent d'utiliser la peine capitale pour punir les condamnés soulève des doutes quant à leur statut de défenseur des droits de l'homme et remet en question leur autorité morale en la matière.

Very little research has been conducted on the experiences of women who are not physically incarcerated but who nonetheless experience secondary forms of incarceration. In examining the degradation women experience during visitation, this article fills a gap in the critical carceral studies literature by examining the gendered and racialized dynamics of visitation processing rituals. In doing so, it uncover ways the surveillance and control of women on the peripheries of the prison reflect societal anxieties about, and efforts to surveil and control, the bodies of racialized women. This paper argues that: 1) women endure scrutiny, deprivation, and diminished bodily autonomy in exchange for visitation, resulting in the routine humiliation, degradation, and entrapment of free women within carceral regimes of control; 2) women experience differential treatment by prison staff, whose discretionary enforcement of clothing regulations is shaped by racist stereotypes of hypersexualized Black female bodies; and 3) the morality policing of free women's bodies through racial stereotypes is justified as a matter of security when granting or denying women access to visitation.

This thesis explores the ideological implications of sound in the cinema of Turkey
through five feature films produced between 2016 and 2022. Intertwining cultural
theory, affect theory and sound studies, it analyzes the patterns manifested in the forms
of absence, repetition and distortion of sound through an original methodology of
“symptomatic listening”. Tracing the historical transformation of sound in cinema
from the early Republican period to Yeşilçam and to the present day, it opens up the
functions of cinematic sound to discussion through detailed analyses of the films. The
thesis claims that after 2016, cinema in Turkey has entered an era in which sound is
used as an ideological infrastructure that determines what can be heard, what emotions
can circulate, and what silences will be produced. In this context, cinema sound is
positioned as a device that makes ideology heard, felt, and embodied.

Key Words: Film Sound, Ideology, Turkish Cinema, Affect, Cultural Criticism

U.S. boundary enforcement has long been organized around an effort to redirect unauthorized border crossing into remote and inhospitable expanses of desert terrain. Using southern Arizona’s West Desert corridor as a case study, this article explores how these two conditions have been actively cultivated over time. First, we describe the twentieth-century use of military and conservation rationales to remove indigenous O’odham, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American residents from their villages and ranchlands. Then, we examine the contemporary evolution of what we call the U.S. selective access regime, one that restricts public access and criminalizes humanitarian intervention even as the government aggressively expands its own ability to circulate across previously difficult-to-access areas of federally managed land. To understand the implications for unauthorized border crossers, we apply a model of human water loss from temperature and locomotion-induced perspiration associated with pedestrian movement across these desert lands. Our findings reveal, first, how remoteness is a relational phenomenon that must be continuously reproduced and defended; and second, how governmental efforts to do so measurably increase the risk of human mortality. Selective access also obscures the scale of this phenomenon, however, contributing to the disappearance of thousands of unauthorized border crossers over time.

Despite international calls to abolish the use of segregation in prisons, the practice has been defended by some Canadian correctional workers as a sometimes-necessary practice to preserve prisoner and staff safety. Informed through a lens of risk and the socio-legal literature on segregation, the current interview study explores perspectives on segregation from 28 correctional officers (COs) employed in provincial correctional services at a prison in Atlantic Canada. COs expressed a need to continue using segregation-albeit less often and under reformed contexts-to ensure safety for prisoners and staff and preserve prisoner accountability. Findings indicate COs recognize the structural, situational, and personal factors and complexities that shape decisions to impose segregation. They call for increased available resources to improve prisoner safety, dignity and wellness, prevent harm and self-injury, and reduce the use of segregation. We conclude with recommendations for provincial and territorial correctional institutions to consider moving forward.

By bringing debates over experiential time within human geography and criminology/prison sociology into dialogue with one another, this article draws attention to the imperative of considering time in the geographical study of incarceration. Informed by an understanding of space and time which sees them as analytically inseparable from each other, TimeSpace, it revisits existing empirical material previously generated through qualitative research within criminology and prison sociology, and identifies some potential synergies with human geography; in highlighting overlapping temporalities in a carceral context, and in demonstrating both the significance of perceived control over time, and the experience of the lifecourse, when past, present and future are viewed through "each successive now" in a context where (clock) time "moves on" but space is fixed.

Inequities in education continue to have a pervasive impact on students, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds in Southeast Asia. Many of these students frequently face stigma due to their Indigenous identities (Kovats Sánchez, 2020), which can hinder their access to and participation in higher education (Anderson et al., 2022). This stigma they encounter is shaped due to their unique socio-cultural contexts (Pamoso et al., 2025) and is deeply rooted in experiences of marginalisation. However, students often respond to these stigma-related challenges with resilience, employing various coping strategies to navigate the barriers they face. Motivated to capture the nuances of these experiences of stigma, we created a research project aimed at amplifying the voices of these students. Our research project focused on the stigma and coping experiences of ethnic-minority students in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, seeking to uncover their recommendations for how they navigate and manage the stigma they experience. Our findings underscored how stigma and coping mechanisms vary across time, context and culture. Students’ narratives revealed that marginalisation from stigma is nuanced and complex, ranging from subtle microaggressions to more overt acts of violence. Despite these challenges, students’ stories showed a sense of resistance against the marginality they experience.

Partnership and accountability are entrenched in development policies especially with the much drive for sustainability. Partnership assures the collaboration of players in any development project as well as advocates fair treatment of all stakeholders. The reality of these concepts which guarantee the possibility of local control and joint ownership of all the processes of any project is mostly in theory. In practice it is matched by unequal power relations especially in projects established in rural areas. Using the Participatory Action Research (PAR) as well as the Theatre for Development methodology on the privatized Cameroon Tea Estates (CTE), this article contends that partnership and accountability are vital development concepts for initiatives that have the people at heart and aim at sustainability. It argues that the difficulties that the Tole people are facing today and the threat on sustainability of the CTE are due to the non-or minimal existence of a good development plan. It is the hypotheses of this paper that accountability is engendered when partnership is established at the very beginning of a project and when there is accountability, the participation of all is automatic. Secondly, the participatory engagement of all the stakeholders will lead to sustainable fairness for all as well as the sustainability of the project.

In highly regulated environments such as prisons, food-related practices seem to be one of the only activities that can be controlled by incarcerated people, although this control is very limited. Drawing on a media review conducted as part of the research project, we explore collective hunger strikes in Canadian prisons, highlighting the demands made by incarcerated individuals between 2016 and 2022, as well as the institutions’ response. Since these hunger strikes have been used to challenge various inhuman conditions of detention, we will reflect on them, and food more broadly, as a tool to resist authority, its ability to foster a sense of autonomy and identity for incarcerated folks as well as to forge a bond of solidarity through collective mobilization, both inside and outside prison walls. This paper shows how food is a space of contestation where incarcerated folks and Canadian carceral institutions fight with disproportionate means to gain power.

There is growing recognition of the inextricable relationship between food and punishment, a relationship buttressed by hyper-capitalism, colonialism, racism, and other harmful approaches to social control. This is abundantly clear in the context of carceral systems, where food is a tool of violence and control. Yet, in prison, food is also a tool of contestation and resistance, and a means of building community and solidarity. A critical examination of prison food is uniquely positioned to lay bare the failings of the prison system, and advance broader conversations on abolition, social justice, racism, colonialism, and capitalism. It forces us to reconsider and expand our understandings of food justice, and calls on us to include the lives, perspectives and experiences of incarcerated individuals in our visions of food system transformations and imaginaries.

If, a we know, many trategie of care are teleological in nature, ca t a a way to en ure the continuation or adaptation of/to the world rather than it radical overthrowing, then how do we think care otherwi e? Thi paper will return to the temporal regi ter of care a a way of trying to think thi through. The tying of cure to care tend to po ition care a a thoroughly future-oriented practice, one where the telo i the cure of whatever pathology ha been identified, a making right of what ha been diagno ed a wrong. But if, to modify Adorno, a right life cannot be made in a wrong world, then how can care become detached from a goal or terminu that might motivate it, toward an openne that could point u toward the "end of the world" (Wilder on 2018, 93)? How, in other word , can care be thought of not a in ervice of a goal, but rather be out ide of and beyond what Sexton call "(the re toration of) overeignty" (2016, 593)?

The State of Israel utilizes a range of complex tools in its project of reterritorializing Palestine. One of these tools is the field of archaeology, and the state apparatus tasked with overseeing the work of excavating material remains and exploiting the uncovered resources toward a settler-colonialist and anti-Palestinian carceral control, cultural dispossession, and narrative capture. The Israeli Antiquities Authority is the agency responsible for these functions, utilizing an expansive antiquities law which allows the agency to seize land that it believes to be important to the cultural interests of the state, subsequently securitizing the territory and policing the antiquities markets, and dominating geography through the construction of an historical narrative that erases Palestinian past and present. This contention articulates the mechanics of erasure and dispossession that characterize the work of the IAA through an explanation of the law it enforces, engagement with the testimonies of agency members and Palestinians, and an analysis of the military-carceral dimensions of the extractive process, and a description of the ways Palestinians resist these enclosures.

In this paper we disclose the TVR algorithm of the Spanish Criminal Justice System (CJS). This Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) is mainly applied as part of the decision-making process for granting prison leaves in one of the three prison systems of Spain. This algorithm has been in-use for thirty years but has remained partially undisclosed. After a comprehensive scrutiny of the literature, the original source, in which the algorithm is detailed, was found within an unpublished book. Using the information contained within this manual, we simulated all the possible outcomes of the algorithm. As a result, the algorithm leads to a category of high, very high, extreme, or maximal risk in 99.3% of cases. Furthermore, out of the 6144 possible outcomes of the TVR algorithm, only 9 outcomes lead to a category of low or very low risk, what entails that there is potential evidence of bias towards false positives.

Prisons are places of power and resistance. When the staff oppress prisoners, the latter participate in various forms of resistance, such as violence, substance misuse, riots, or protests to communicate a sense of injustice. Many of these struggles have been documented and discussed at length, revealing and communicating the national and local structures that produce them. However, potting remains a taboo on the wings and in criminological literature, where the use of bodily fluids as a means of prisoners rejecting penal power is rarely discussed beyond macro-political contexts. Drawing on symbolic interactionism and phenomenological approaches to knowledge, this paper challenges that taboo and proposes that potting is an embodied expression of oppression, a symbolic representation of prisoners' defilement and a physical transference of their sense of injustice. Potting is a pervasive and perverse form of resistance.

Drawing from the logic of carcerality, and refined through theories of settler colonialism, I argue in this paper the following. First, carcerality is not just a tactic of settler colonization in Canada for bodily controlling populations, but a key feature of settler colonial claims to land and territory; imposing carceral spaces on Indigenous people is a fundamental necessity for the expectations and ambitions of settler colonization, and as settler colonization in Canada is ongoing, the expansion of these carceral spaces likewise continues. Second, carceral theory can be used to analyze how Indigenous people are made to "disappear" from settler-dominated spaces, and expose the interlocking roles of state power and social prejudice in these "eliminations." As all kinds of frontier spaces-urban, rural, and otherwise-are assimilated into the settler colonial assemblage, Indigenous people are forced into mobility that itself is both carceral and eliminatory. Understanding carcerality as something pervasive in settler society, and not just limited to the criminal justice system, changes how we must approach decolonization.

Faced with ongoing African immigration, the European Union (EU) and its member states have revitalized the population sciences to slow movements toward its borders. Post-2015 initiatives include collaborations with African population registries, enhanced data aggregation systems, and elaborate movement tracking systems. Couched in a progressive language of global partnership that aligns with the EU’s stated liberal values, the Europeans are marshalling knowledge to further a racialized form of global precriminalization. Its data-driven futurology codes Africans as intrinsically disposed to ‘illegal’ and ‘irresponsible’ migration. Such spatio-racial criminalization generates an almost unassailable temporal and narrative enigma in which all Africans are already suspect and policed for dangerous migration crimes they have not yet committed. This engenders efforts to correct the future in the present: to save Africans from their irresponsibility. Within this rubric of scientific containment, African protestations are epistemically erased as cries of those who know not what is in their best interest. The data generated to support this containment project is itself embedded in an ever more elaborate moral economy of knowledge incorporating scholars outside and across Africa. Their cooperation legitimizes
and normalizes the EU’s criminological project, making complicit even scholars employing data to unsettle the narratives of risk and paternalistic protection used to justify exclusion.

Les comptes rendus des présidents d'assises présentent l'intérêt d'éclairer le fonctionnement de la justice criminelle dans la première moitié du e siècle. Les difficultés rencontrées par les magistrats lors des jugements d'infanticide hantent la plupart de leurs écrits. Le caractère délicat du traitement de cette catégorie de meurtre tient, Ce site utilise des cookies et collecte des informations personnelles vous concernant. Pour plus de précisions, nous vous invitons à consulter notre politique de confidentialité (mise à jour le 25 juin 2018). En poursuivant votre navigation, vous acceptez l'utilisation des cookies. Fermer 11/01/2019 Des criminelles au village -Chapitre I. Les procès d'infanticide -Presses universitaires de Rennes 2/40 2 3 4 Le cadre juridique et procédural L'instruction préparatoire selon eux, au flou laissé par le législateur dans la définition de la victime, aux dysfonctionnements observés dans l'instruction des affaires, et aux insuffisances de la médecine légale qui, dans les années 1820, n'en est encore qu'à ses balbutiements. La procédure est régie par le Code d'instruction criminelle de 1808. Elle ne subit, jusqu'en 1865, que peu de modifications. Elle comprend deux phases : l'instruction préparatoire, qui est écrite, secrète et non contradictoire, et le jugement en audience publique, devant un jury. Au cours du jugement, la liberté des débats et l'assistance de l'accusé par un conseil viennent contrebalancer le caractère secret de l'instruction préparatoire. Certains auteurs ont vu dans le contraste entre les deux phases de la procédure criminelle un compromis entre procédure inquisitoire et procédure accusatoire, entre les traditions héritées de l'ordonnance criminelle de 1670 et les principes révolutionnaires proclamés par l'Assemblée constituante 1 . Pour Adhémar Esmein, en particulier, le Code d'instruction criminelle est « une oeuvre composite et de transaction, qui emprunte aux lois de la Révolution presque toutes les règles des débats et des jugements, à l'ordonnance de 1670 presque toutes celles de l'instruction préparatoire 2 ». Les sources utilisées pour cette étude reflètent bien la césure entre ces deux étapes, fort distinctes, de la procédure criminelle. Cette césure se traduit jusque dans l'éloignement géographique des locaux d'archives dans lesquels elles sont conservées. Les dossiers d'instruction, correspondant à l'instruction préparatoire, sont conservés dans les départements, tandis que les comptes rendus des sessions des cours d'assises, qui intéressent la politique pénale de l'État, sont localisés dans la capitale. L'instruction préparatoire peut-être considérée comme la phase déterminante du procès criminel. C'est elle qui conduit à la connaissance des faits et sert de base à Ce site utilise des cookies et collecte des informations personnelles vous concernant. Pour plus de précisions, nous vous invitons à consulter notre politique de confidentialité (mise à jour le 25 juin 2018). En poursuivant votre navigation, vous acceptez l'utilisation des cookies. Fermer 11/01/2019 Des criminelles au village -Chapitre I. Les procès d'infanticide -Presses universitaires de Rennes 3/40 5 6 Ce site utilise des cookies et collecte des informations personnelles vous concernant. Pour plus de précisions, nous vous invitons à consulter notre politique de confidentialité (mise à jour le 25 juin 2018). En poursuivant votre navigation, vous acceptez l'utilisation des cookies. Fermer 11/01/2019 Des criminelles au village -Chapitre I. Les procès d'infanticide -Presses universitaires de Rennes 4/40 7 8 9 Le flagrant délit qui précèdent la mise en accusation. Il interroge les inculpés, procède aux visites domiciliaires, entend les témoins, délivre les mandats d'amener et d'arrestation. Les juges d'instruction du e siècle n'ont pas la célébrité qu'ils ont su conquérir de nos jours à travers la presse. Ils demeurent des personnages énigmatiques. On ne les connaît que par les questions qu'ils posent aux inculpés. Et de ces questions, il ne reste que ce qu'a cru bon de transcrire le greffier. Sauf exception, leur position à l'égard des femmes criminelles paraît empreinte de neutralité. À aucun moment n'apparaît dans les archives, de la part d'un juge d'instruction, un commentaire quelconque sur les faits qu'il instruit. C'est pourquoi il ne nous a pas paru utile de chercher à les connaître davantage. Cependant, deux d'entre eux ont laissé des écrits fort importants pour la connaissance des populations bretonnes : Jean-Marie Limon et François-Marie-Guillaume Habasque. Limon a d'abord été juge au tribunal de Quimper, puis juge d'instruction à Brest. Il est connu pour son ouvrage intitulé Usages et règlements locaux en vigueur dans le Finistère. Ce livre, publié à Quimper en 1852, est une mine de renseignements sur la condition matérielle des agriculteurs et des domestiques. Les informations qu'il rassemble proviennent d'un réseau de correspondants (experts, juges de paix, notaires…) couvrant l'ensemble du département. Habasque a d'abord été juge puis, à partir de 1834, président du tribunal de Saint-Brieuc. Il a été l'un des fondateurs de l'Annuaire des Côtes-du-Nord en 1836 et a écrit plusieurs ouvrages sur ce département, notamment Notions historiques, géographiques, statistiques et agronomiques sur le littoral du département des Côtes-du-Nord 5 . Parmi les juges ou les substituts qui ont eu à traiter des affaires d'infanticide quelques-uns deviendront conseillers à la cour de Rennes avant 1865. Toutes les affaires d'infanticide n'entrent pas dans le schéma procédural classique. Dans plus de la moitié des cas, les magistrats procèdent dans un contexte de flagrant délit. Le Ce site utilise des cookies et collecte des informations personnelles vous concernant. Pour plus de précisions, nous vous invitons à consulter notre politique de confidentialité (mise à jour le 25 juin 2018). En poursuivant votre navigation, vous acceptez l'utilisation des cookies. Fermer 11/01/2019 Des criminelles au village -Chapitre I. Les procès d'infanticide -Presses universitaires de Rennes

Presenting the material experiences of currently and formerly incarcerated
people, this special issue helps to map the feeling and display rules that
constitute the emotion culture(s) of different carceral spaces. This work also entails considering the affective experience – a ‘felt’ geography (Davidson & Milligan, 2004), for example, where the confined body acts as a canvas for the inscription of identity, social relations, and experience (Moran, 2012a, 2012b), such as when the scars from self-harm act as a visible signifier of emotion (Kilty, 2012a, 2012b). In this way, “law [and the prison] ‘takes hold of’ bodies in order to make them its text” (de Certeau, 1984, p. 139). Space also shapes how time is experienced (Lefebvre, 1991). As prison exhibits a ‘drudgery of place’ (Urry, 2014) where time stagnates, prisoners often feel suspended in time, increasing their feelings of detachment and loneliness (Guenther, 2013; Martel, 2006; Moran, 2012b; Stoller, 2003). Studying how emotions shape the organization and management of carceral spaces and how carceral spaces shape feelings and emotions contributes to rethinking the affective politics of these environments.

Prison data collection is a labyrinthine infrastructure. This article engages with debates around the political potentials and limitations of transparency as a form of "accountability," specifically as it relates to carceral management and data gathering. We examine the use of OASys, a widely used risk assessment tool in the British prison system, in order to demonstrate how transparency operates as a means of legitimating prison data collection and ensuing penal management. Prisoner options to resist their file, or "data double," in this context are considered and the decisive role of OASys as an immediately operationalized technical structure is outlined. We demonstrate that the political and managerial logics that underpin OASys heavily shape and structurally limit the terrain on which any individual might challenge their carceral administration. Ultimately, we argue that, in this context, transparency itself forecloses broader notions of radical and systemic change by inviting individuals into the creation of their own data double, and thus the legitimation of their own penal management and the forms of procedural justice offered by the prison estate. Finally, implications from this case for broader debates about transparency-as-accountability are explored.

The British prison estate is characterised by an elaborate mental health infrastructure, an edifice often rearranged to meet the near-permanent mental health 'crisis' in its walls. From 'trauma-informed' prisons to behaviour change programmes, care for mentally 'vulnerable' people in prison has sedimented into the backbone of penal strategy. Much of this is developed through appeals to inclusion: of the vulnerable, disadvantaged, and traumatised people who are increasingly recognised as comprising a disproportionate number of prisoners. One category around which this infrastructure is organised is 'personality disorder'. Since New Labour's demarcation of this 'offender group' in the early 2000s, they are now thought to comprise a majority of the prison population. This article, grounded in prison documents and interviews with former prisoners, looks at the disorder's operationalisation in prison. It shows the disorder to be a broad and malleable category that works to mediate between prisoners, as individual subjects, and an expanding, complex, and shifting prison structure. Prisoners are explained in terms of the diagnosis, as the category's borders are wide and shifting enough to absorb all kinds of behaviour, beliefs, and experiences. We thus see how the diagnosis simultaneously works to dismiss prisoners' inner lives at the very moment it claims to understand them-and how this move facilitates penal management. The article uses Althusser's work on subjects and interpellation to make sense of this situation, and prisoners' tactical navigation of it. The material practices that make the diagnosis real are emphasised, and connected to the imperatives of prison management.

Anthropological praxis has the potential to help build and sustain social justice movements by speaking truth to power, exposing structural violence, and questioning communities' safety and well-being. Anthropologists who engage in praxis interrogate the root causes of oppression by critiquing the discipline's pedagogies. The current structure of academic institutions encourages scholars to overlook the popular and political education necessary to ameliorate social suffering and advance human rights. This paper explores prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, a liberatory praxis framework that socio-cultural anthropologists may adopt as active participants in the abolitionist struggle. This case study draws on community-based participatory action research with Southerners on New Ground (SONG), a political education working group called Atlanta Political Education Series (APE Shit). Inspired by Paulo Freire's principle, "education is freedom," this working group released a zine workbook titled Abolition 101, an accessible resource in political education for community members who are interested in learning about PIC abolition. Autoethnographic data analysis reveals the value of incorporating a liberatory framework in academic anthropology. I argue that mainstreaming such an approach in formal anthropological pedagogy challenges students and mobilizes communities to be critically informed creators of their reality and active agents of social change.

This article introduces the forward-thinking concept of desistance habitus. The analysis and approach are situated within an auto-ethnographical embodied insider experience of navigating both persistent criminality and the revolving door of incarceration through to the transition into employment within statutory youth justice services. The auto-ethnographic analysis is posited within Bourdieu's conceptual frameworks of habitus, capital, field, and doxa to analyse the relational dynamic that underpins the axiomatic understanding of many peer mentors when they work with mentees in the criminal justice system. It is argued through lived experience that these constructs provide an innovative approach to explore how legitimacy is obtained through the strategic use of habitus within the relational dynamic between those involved in the criminal justice systempersistent offendersand criminal justice professionals who have been exposed to similar lived experiences of persistent crime and punishment. This method of analysis is lacking within the limited criminological investigation that has taken place on peer mentors in criminal justice practice. The data suggests that both street and carceral experiences can engender legitimacy and credibility which generates the ability to promote desistance pathways as a strategic tool within criminal justice practice.

The next paper presents a bold and what for some readers of Advancing Corrections may be a rather controversial and unnecessary option for ‘reinventing the architecture of incarceration’, especially in a country like America where hyper-incarceration has been tried and failed so glaringly in reducing crime. But Steve Carter and Stanley Hallett, the two authors with impeccable credentials in urban design and architecture, argue for Rehab City not as a way to ‘incarcerate’ in the traditional sense, but as a way to begin thinking of how we can sanction the law-breaker but still keep them connected to the community. Steve and Stanley responded to the criticism from several reviewers that we ‘don’t need more prisons’ by admitting that America has advanced ‘miserable solutions’ in the last number of decades. But they insisted that “we stand by our belief that since the vast majority of law- breakers in America come from impoverished inner-city neighborhoods, the next decade of solutions should recognize that, and if we build anything at all, we should build solutions that are a part of the community.”Importantly, Rehab City is not just an abstract or theoretical concept, it is being looked at seriously by at least one jurisdiction in America. Regardless of our views on the need for more prisons, I would think that we can all agree that how prisons can do less harm is something certainly
worth exploring.

Border in and of itself is a wall: The US-Mexico border Prelude: Sitting near the fence at the US-Mexico border, Kafi was waiting with his wife and two kids to cross. With the panopticon of US border guards all around him, he looks at the dreamland wall, picks up his two kids, takes one step forward, gets captured and asked to go back. He was helpless and sapped over the course of a day of COVID-19 on the rampage near the US-Mexico

Using the concept of the carceral state, this article articulates how Israel's control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has shifted to a nondemocratic one-state paradigm. While, initially, Israel operated a separate military carceral system for these areas, between 2000 and 2006 it dismantled the military system, transferred most Palestinian prisoners into Israel, and rebranded its civilian prison service as the National Prison Authority, making it the sole agency responsible for the incarceration of Palestinians. This reorganization consolidated a single carceral system inside Israeli territory-the one carceral state-which serves as crucial evidence of the de facto one-state paradigm and forms a centerpiece of this new regime in Israel/Palestine. By analyzing a broad range of archival and administrative documents and 168 Supreme Court decisions on the management of prisons and Palestinian prisoners, this study reveals how the massive "exclusionary inclusion" of the Palestinian prisoner population in Israeli state law and its administrative mechanisms changes the entire landscape of the Israeli settler-colonial citizenship regime. Palestinian prisoners become "carceral citizens" of the "one state" and are subject to a parallel, alternate legality, in which they expand their repertoire of resistance against the wider racialized and repressive regime across Palestine/Israel.

تسعى هذه المداخلة إلى تحليل وتفكيك التركيبات والتكوينات المعمارية والتصميمية القمعية العنيفة لنظام الأسد المخلوع.  بما  لها من مراكمات وتقاطعات في ومع نماذج معمارية أخرى، وإن كانت قد تميزت عنهم جميعًا في الوحشية والعنف والقمع.
من تلك التصميمات -ماسمي- العمارة الوحشية (أو القاسية)
Brutal Architecture
وعمارة الأنظمة الشمولية (أو التوتاليتارية)
Totalitarian Architecture

This is an early draft of a paper which has appeared as Chapter 10, ‘Colonizing the future: Assembling a Gulf Carceral Urban World’ in Stuit, H., J. Turner and J. Weegels (eds.) Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures and Futures (2024). London: Bloomsbury. Please quote and reference the published chapter]

Bruce E. Stanley

Prólogo
En una era definida por la rápida evolución tecnológica, los cambiantes valores sociales y los desafíos globales sin precedentes, la criminología se encuentra en una encrucijada. Los marcos tradicionales de la justicia y la política legal, aunque fundamentales, luchan cada vez más por abordar las complejidades que introduce el mundo digital e interconectado. El advenimiento de la inteligencia artificial, la computación cuántica y otras innovaciones de vanguardia exige una reinvención de la criminología, no como una disciplina estática, sino como un campo dinámico e interdisciplinario capaz de abrazar los vastos potenciales y peligros de esta nueva era.

Este volumen colaborativo surge de un profundo reconocimiento de que la búsqueda de la justicia en el siglo XXI debe ser transformadora, ética e inclusiva. Representa el esfuerzo intelectual colectivo de académicos, profesionales y visionarios que se atreven a imaginar un panorama criminológico que integre los avances tecnológicos con un compromiso inquebrantable con la dignidad humana, la equidad y la sostenibilidad. En su núcleo yace una única pregunta orientadora: ¿Cómo podemos aprovechar las herramientas del mañana para crear una sociedad más justa, segura y compasiva?

La tarea que tenemos por delante es monumental. Los avances en inteligencia artificial y el análisis de grandes datos han introducido capacidades sin precedentes para la prevención y la investigación del crimen. Los algoritmos pueden identificar patrones invisibles al ojo humano, predecir riesgos con una precisión asombrosa y optimizar la asignación de recursos de formas previamente inimaginables. Sin embargo, estas mismas tecnologías plantean profundas preguntas éticas. ¿Quién programa los algoritmos y qué sesgos podrían codificar? ¿Cómo protegemos la privacidad individual frente al alcance generalizado de los sistemas de vigilancia? ¿Puede alguna vez realizarse plenamente la justicia en un marco mediado por la inteligencia de las máquinas?

Igualmente apremiantes son los desafíos que plantea la integración de las tecnologías cuánticas en los marcos legales y de seguridad. La computación cuántica promete revolucionar la criptografía, hacer obsoletas las medidas actuales de ciberseguridad y transformar nuestra comprensión de la evidencia y la prueba en los contextos legales. Sin embargo, con tal poder transformador también viene el potencial para el mal uso, la disrupción y la inequidad. Este volumen no esquiva estos dilemas; más bien, los enfrenta de manera directa, proponiendo caminos prácticos para integrar estas tecnologías de manera que se alineen con los principios fundamentales de la justicia y la equidad.

Al mismo tiempo, el libro explora la intrincada interacción entre la criminología y la política pública. Las políticas que implementemos hoy darán forma a los límites éticos de la tecnología mañana. Determinarán si la innovación se convierte en una herramienta de empoderamiento o en un mecanismo de control. Basándose en diversas perspectivas de la sociología, la filosofía, la economía y los estudios ambientales, esta obra resalta la necesidad crítica de una colaboración interdisciplinaria. Aboga por un enfoque holístico que considere los impactos sociales más amplios de la integración tecnológica, desde su potencial para reducir la reincidencia a través de iniciativas de justicia restaurativa hasta sus implicaciones para la seguridad global y los derechos humanos.

El título, Forjar un Nuevo Paradigma Criminológico, refleja una convicción compartida: que el futuro de la criminología debe ser forjado, no simplemente descubierto. Este proceso de forja requiere el valor de cuestionar normas arraigadas, la visión para imaginar nuevas posibilidades y la determinación para actuar con propósito e integridad. Es un llamado a la acción para académicos y profesionales por igual para que participen en el diálogo, desafíen suposiciones y co-crean soluciones que resuenen con los imperativos éticos de nuestro tiempo.

Este trabajo no es solo una reflexión sobre el conocimiento actual, sino un plano aspiracional para el futuro. Es un testimonio de la creencia perdurable de que la justicia, aunque esquiva, sigue siendo un objetivo que vale la pena perseguir con una determinación inquebrantable. Como lectores, se les invita no solo a comprometerse con las ideas presentadas en estas páginas, sino también a contribuir con sus propias ideas, críticas e innovaciones. El viaje hacia un futuro justo y sostenible es uno que debemos emprender juntos.

En este prólogo, preparamos el terreno para una colección de capítulos que cruzan las fronteras de disciplinas, geografías e ideologías. Las voces de los autores resuenan con un compromiso compartido con la justicia, sus perspectivas enriquecidas por experiencias diversas y una profunda experiencia. Juntos, iluminan un camino hacia adelante, donde la tecnología no sirve como un reemplazo de los valores humanos, sino como un poderoso aliado en su realización.

Al embarcarse en este viaje intelectual, que encuentren inspiración, desafío y esperanza. Porque en las páginas que siguen no solo se encuentra el plano de un nuevo orden criminológico, sino también las semillas de una visión que puede transformar nuestra humanidad compartida. Avancemos, guiados por los ideales intemporales de la justicia, la equidad y la creencia inquebrantable en el mejoramiento de la sociedad.

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader
https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/ian-loader/

Palabras de Gratitud

Deseo expresar mi más profundo y sincero agradecimiento a aquellos que me han guiado en mi desarrollo académico y personal, y que, en esta ocasión tan especial, me acompañan en espíritu. En primer lugar, a mis padres, tanto terrenales como espirituales, quienes han sido los pilares inquebrantables de mi vida. También extiendo mi agradecimiento a los amigos y mentores que han caminado a mi lado durante los momentos más críticos de este viaje.

Una mención especial de gratitud va para Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1980, por su incansable lucha por los derechos humanos; para Martha Minow, cuyas enseñanzas han iluminado mi camino académico; y para el inolvidable Jorge Luis Borges, el autodidacta universal, cuya visión del mundo ha dejado una marca indeleble en mi ser. También debo reconocer a mis extraordinarios e indispensables amigos: Brígite Aguirre Obando, Johan Coronado Ayala, y Niels Eduardo Ynga Inga, por su apoyo invaluable y por traer alegría a mi vida en tiempos de desolación, manipulación y traición.

También deseo reconocer la influencia de figuras importantes en mi vida, como Román Faustino Fernández Adriano, Rosa María Zambrano Encalada, Luis Federico Leloir, Williams Rodríguez Silva, María Esther Zambrano Encalada, Ítala Andrea Preguntegui Garrafa, Midori Zuazo Aulla, Josefina Miró Quesada Gayoso, Dalia Elizabeth Zurita Espinoza, César Hildebrandt Pérez Treviño, Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea, Sonia Winer, María Arias Vicente, Paula Olivia Rapetti, Teresa Zamudio Ojeda, Miguel Belleza Castellares, Edgardo Donna, José Antonio Ñique de la Puente, Jorge Rendón Vásquez, Domingo Jesús Mávila Salón, Wendy Zoraida Acosta Gil, Nancy Mendoza Vásquez, Pedro Castillo Terrones, Jorge Goicochea Chaparro, Flor Minaya Foronda, Giovanna Quispe Mendoza, Jesús Gonzalo Canales Alfaro, Jesús Gonzalo Canales Yactayo (hijo), Romel Medina Briones, Miguel Ángel Estrada, Dante Lévano Condori, Lesly Torres Manza, Eduar Raúl Cortez Orrillo, Ricardo Guibourg, Carlos Milla, Miguel Morales, el legendario maestro Luis Amparo Grimaldo Zapata, Tomás Várnagy, Víctor Raúl Yactayo Castillo, Enrique Alarico Verástegui Peláez, Francisco Chumpitaz Arias, Olga Sandoval Julián, Enrique Pisconte Llerena, Daniel Germán Elía, Carlos Zambrano Encalada, Ángel Atuncar Gutiérrez, Richard Lovera Herrera, Mario Miranda Morales, Paola García Reyes, Luis Alberto Pinchi Fanasando, y mis hermanos espirituales y de sangre: Adela Cortéz Rojas, César Chambergo Rojas, María Elizabeth Casas Bartolo, Santos Vera Sandoval, Miguel Ángel Ciuro Caldani, Jesús Ruiz, Federico Fernández Adriano, Josué Matos, José Luis Daga Rodríguez, Felipe Huamán Gutiérrez, William Cárdenas Morón, José Campos Saavedra, Orlando Vera, y el Rabino Daniel Chapan.

A mis queridos amigos y familiares, como José Luis Pérez Chumpitaz, Kevin Cordero Sánchez, Guillermo Martín Morales Zambrano, Edsson Jair Morales Zambrano Encalada, Paola Morales Zambrano, Paola García Reyes y sus hijos, quienes me han apoyado en tiempos difíciles, les extiendo mi más profundo agradecimiento. Rezo para que Dios los bendiga en su camino. Mi gratitud también se extiende a Luis Amparo Grimaldo Zapata, Ángel Atuncar Gutiérrez, Federico Fernández Adriano y Santos Vera Sandoval, quienes nos guían desde arriba en estos tiempos desafiantes.

No puedo pasar por alto las eminentes contribuciones culturales y educativas del Ingeniero Carlos Sertzen Seminario, por su inmenso apoyo en la difusión de la ciencia y las humanidades en este nuevo milenio.

También deseo reconocer a aquellos que, ya sea de manera consciente o inconsciente, me causaron daño en el pasado, pues ellos me han fortalecido y me han dado la resiliencia necesaria para superar mis propios límites y enfrentar los desafíos imprevistos del futuro.

En particular, deseo expresar mi profundo agradecimiento a mi distinguido amigo y ilustre colega, Ian Loader, Director del Centre for Criminology de la Universidad de Oxford y Profesor de Criminología en el Programa de Doctorado en Criminología de Oxford. Ian Loader también es Profesor Honorario en la School of Social and Political Sciences de la Universidad de Melbourne. Miembro de la British Academy y de la Royal Society for the Arts, Ian es ampliamente reconocido por su influyente trabajo en criminología, abarcando áreas como la policía, la seguridad privada, las percepciones públicas del crimen y la justicia, la política penal y la cultura, el c...

This work posits to comprehend the gesture as methodological device to investigate masculinities. Thus, the article retrieves a couple of intervention experiences, situated at the urban periphery and the prison. In these experiences based on artistic and pedagogical practices men elaborate thoughts and reflections pertaining to their masculinities, trough gestures: from a body´s position that only make sense when it is consider within a certain environment. This argument aims not so much to offer a well-defined characterization of the masculine identities of men, but to recognize these masculinities from a gesture, that is, through an affective relationship between body, subjectivity and territory.

Des documents encore secrets sur la guerre civile colombienne viennent d’être déclassifiés.
Washington, D.C., 6 décembre 2024 - Hier, le président colombien Gustavo Petro a annoncé qu'il avait demandé aux États-Unis d'accélérer la déclassification des documents d'archives concernant l'affaire du Palais de justice de 1985. Cette demande constitue une avancée importante pour les défenseurs des droits de l'homme qui cherchent à clarifier les motivations et les actions des insurgés du M-19 qui ont pris d'assaut le bâtiment le 6 novembre 1985, ainsi que la responsabilité du gouvernement colombien à l'égard des personnes qui ont péri dans l'incendie qui a ravagé le siège du pouvoir judiciaire colombien et à l'égard des disparitions qui ont eu lieu par la suite.

L'objectif de l'étude est d'analyser les aptitudes requises pour les professionnels de jeunesse et d'animation qui rendent compte de la construction identitaire des personnes vivant dans le milieu carcéral. Durant les situations de prise en charge des personnes en situation de précarité, les besoins de la situation et les besoins de la personne sont à prendre en compte (Kaës, 2022). Cerner la conceptualisation du tuteur dans sa gestion des interactions suppose la prise en compte de l'articulation entre les objectifs poursuivis, les règles d'action, de prise d'information et de contrôle qu'il mobilise. La dimension opérationnelle de la connaissance et l'implication subjective de la personne incarcérée sont nécessaire pour penser cette lecture du positionnement du tuteur. Il se pose alors la question des aptitudes requises pour le soutien en vue de mener à bien le dispositif d'accompagnement. De l'analyse des résultats, il ressort de cela que si l'étayage est l'ensemble d'outils permettant de faciliter le développement et le maintien de soi, ce processus nécessite pour celui qui le manipule certaines aptitudes requises telles que la neutralité, l'écoute active, l'authenticité/congruence, la connaissance de ses limites.

Motivated by a critical concern for state‐sanctioned coer- cion, control, and containment across “free society,” geog- raphers have extended Foucault's concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces and processes. In this paper, however, we aim to re‐center the prison in the carceral geographies literature, reasserting it as the sine qua non of the subfield. In doing so, we organize geogra- phers' analysis of prisons into nine conceptual categories based on this journal's areas of geographical exploration: cultural, development, economic, environment, geographic information systems & quantitative, historical, political, social, and urban. In addition to providing a review of existing prison research in geography, we illustrate the diversity of disciplinary approaches to that most “complete and austere” of institutions.

Putting research and reflection on prison experience into conversation with the subfields of carceral and health geography, we discuss the “somatic carceral condition” as a viseral, bodily effect of prisonization. In doing so, we call for increased reliance on data derived from somatic experience as well as autoethnographic insight on imprisonment. More broadly, we argue, an embrace of somatic data used to tell the story of marginalization and captivity experienced in prison and across the carceral continuum can help advance the discipline of geography theoretically, methodologically, and in terms of contributing to praxis-based interventions.