Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1177/13624806231152214
Jenny Korkodeilou
systems of the region. There is a clear synergy between the chapter and others that expose the prison industrial complex for its exploitative capitalist endeavours. In her chapter on drug rehabilitation programmes in Venezuela, Caroline Parker (Chapter 10) highlights how the promise of producing the ready-for-work ‘certified and re-educated ex-addict’ (p. 214) is undercut by the capture of those completing the programme within a limited and under-waged labour market. Parker speaks of a ‘vernacular professionalization’ (ibid.) to represent this duality. Indeed, Sally Engle Merry’s concept of vernacularization is present throughout the collection of essays (even where it may not be explicitly mentioned), where scholars speak of localized adaptations to governance, cultural categories, or forms of solidarity. So, what can be done about the troubling prison worlds, beyond troubling the normative understanding of Latin American prison worlds? Many approaches that advocate for progressive change in low-resource carceral contexts centre on human rights arguments allied to UN minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners, such as the Mandela Rules. Jennifer Pierce (Chapter 5) contends that such an overt focus on material changes in conditions may not be what prisoners actually want. She explains that in the Dominican Republic, prisoners were more concerned with fair treatment and rated methods of recourse to abuse of authority as more critical than the prison conditions. While international prison reform intentions may be positive, an occidentalist denial of difference across contexts may prevent the realization of real-world change. Loïc Wacquant’s chapter offers perhaps the most overtly solution-based reading of the situation. The text relates to a presentation given to Gendarmeria de Chile, Division of Human Rights, and represents the desire for change imbued throughout the book. The theoretical focus and direct delivery may initially seem incongruous with the collection, yet it raises the issue central to the book—are we asking the right questions? Furthermore, who should be providing the answers?
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1177/13624806221136453
K. Franko
trap, alluring as it clearly is. Vannier’s account is a reminder that the best criminological research can add insight and new understanding that allows us to reframe the debates around penal policy. And here, what she does is to show us that the problem of LWOP is not merely a problem of legislation, or of rising numbers of people serving LWOP sentences (though of course it is those things too), it is about trying to reduce the human suffering inside our prison systems. We should not lose sight of those who are most directly impacted by LWOP. Rather than pick over the rationales behind either LWOP or execution, what we require then is a more fundamental, encompassing and complicated debate: “how should we, as members of different societies, punish those who commit the most serious crimes?’ (p.166). Dr Louise Brangan is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Criminology at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Louise.Brangan@strath.ac.uk
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1177/13624806221135959
O. Khan
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Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1177/13624806221131571
Isabel Arriagada
In recent years, the US penal system has increasingly contracted prison services and introduced electronic commerce technologies for penal populations and their social networks. This study uses visual and textual analysis of 245 images from the websites of 17 inmate package companies to explore electronic commerce strategies in US penal institutions. The inmate package industry uses electronic commerce strategies that address the distinctive conditions of penal confinement and deploys emotionally charged messages to encourage digital interactions with the penal system and elicit consumption. Several company websites also organize the experience of consumption along gender and racial lines. The emergent industry of inmate packages represents one among several contemporary practices of carceral consumption.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1177/13624806221141423
Anton Symkovych
Bentham's idea of the panopticon has long influenced the theorisation of prison order. However, this model of control has been applied almost exclusively to prisoners. Drawing on ethnographic work in Ukraine, I argue that the disciplining of prison officers through institutionalised mutual surveillance was just as important to the maintenance of prison order. Broadening the theorisation of prison order by introducing the concept of hyperopticon, I argue that prison order in a Ukrainian prison hinged on two opposites: collectivism of prisoners and atomisation of prison officers, both depending on the system of multifaceted and excessive surveillance.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1177/13624806221143365
S. A. Bakken, Atte Oksanen, J. Demant
Digital societies demand technological competence, including for actors in illegal activity. Inspired by Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital and related criminological concepts such as street capital, this study analyses digital capital as a wider concept relating to digital drug markets that capture both technological and cultural competences. We pursue this empirically via interview data (N = 107) on social media and darknet drug markets. The overall need for digital competence erodes the earlier divide in drug markets based on either subculture or networks. The need to be familiar with mainstream technological tools and behaviours connects digital drug markets to more general cultural competencies. Consequently, illegal activities become connected with mainstream cultural capital because both fields value the same competencies.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1177/13624806221135865
Laura Gutiérrez, Mark Neocleous
This article develops and extends the critical theory of police power by applying it to Colombia. Scholarship on police in Colombia has been undermined by a focus on the kind of creation myth that one finds in most histories of police: that policing only properly begins in a key foundational year. In Colombia, that year is 1891. This approach overlooks or downplays the importance of the concept of policía. This is the original and far more expansive police concept through which social order in Colombia was fabricated. By paying attention to the continued importance of policía, this article drastically transforms our understanding of police power and state formation in Colombia, and extends the critical theory of police power.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1177/13624806221136454
V. Barker
1. It is striking that Aliverti always refers to citizenship enjoyed by members within national boundaries as a ‘privilege’. This take on citizenship clearly opens important new questions about global inequalities and the ways in which border control protects them. It also calls to attention the practices of colonial extraction that enabled these privileges. But the term ‘privilege’ nonetheless seems partial, and can strike a tin-eared note. It overlooks the long political and social struggles that produced citizenship recognition and rights for the poor and excluded within nation-states. To term the hard-won and still-fragile outcomes of these struggles ‘privilege’ is to overlook important dimensions of the history and lived experience of citizenship acquisition and retention. It also hints at the idea that the citizenship of members is the problem, something that might need to be undone because it rests of the exclusion of the world’s poorest who are locked out of the enjoyment of such benefits.
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