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Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI:10.1215/17432197-7537515

Deena Varner

引用次数: 24

Abstract

Beginning in the late 1960s a series of reforms saw the emergence of vast numbers of bureaucratic instruments meant to standardize the care, custody, and control of inmates. Grievance and disciplinary procedures were largely homogenized to ensure inmates’ protection from the abuses that were prevalent especially in the southern plantation model of incarceration. These same procedures, however, resulted in the increasing removal of prisoners from the sphere of legal, judicial, and, more broadly, public discourse and oversight. This article analyzes how the failure to prosecute crimes committed inside the prison functions to diminish the legal and political standing of both criminal and victim. In handling crime as an extrajudicial matter, adjudicated exclusively by disciplinary boards, the prisoner-criminal and prisoner-victim are positioned as quasi-legal subjects, bearing neither the rights nor responsibilities of citizenship. The prison, therefore, is a model institution for downsizing citizenship, and its disciplinary procedures are an ideal model for the neoliberalization of public institutions.

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从20世纪60年代末开始，一系列改革见证了大量旨在规范对囚犯的照顾、监护和控制的官僚文书的出现。申诉和纪律程序在很大程度上是同质化的，以确保囚犯免受普遍存在的虐待，特别是在南方种植园的监禁模式中。然而，这些同样的程序导致越来越多的囚犯被移出法律、司法和更广泛的公共讨论和监督领域。本文分析了未能起诉监狱内犯罪如何削弱罪犯和受害者的法律和政治地位。在把犯罪作为一种法外事务处理，完全由纪律委员会裁决时，囚犯-罪犯和囚犯-受害者被定位为准法律主体，既不承担公民权利也不承担公民责任。因此，监狱是缩小公民权的典范机构，其惩戒程序是公共机构新自由主义化的理想典范。

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来源期刊

Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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1.20

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.