“我已经控制了这么多”:谈论监狱暴力

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Jingrui Guo
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监狱暴力被认为不仅威胁囚犯、工作人员和访客的安全,而且威胁监狱的日常运作,因此被严格禁止并立即受到惩罚。然而,一些囚犯仍然转向暴力,这引发了人们对这些囚犯是否天生暴力且不可能改变的怀疑。本文通过对浙江省监狱中27名实施暴力并被单独监禁的囚犯的深入采访,探讨了这些囚犯如何理解和描述自己的暴力经历。研究发现,这些囚犯通过采用传统价值观、有条件判决和重复等话语策略,努力将受害者塑造成值得惩罚的人,将行为塑造成受控制的人,并将惩罚塑造成可接受的人。通过这样做,这些囚犯试图重新定义他们不是谁,不应该如何对待他们,以及监狱生活不应该是什么样子。这篇论文可以更好地理解为什么在监狱环境中暴力可以减少,但不可能完全消除。
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‘I have controlled so much’: Discourse of prison violence
Prison violence has been considered a threat to not only the safety of inmates, staff, and visitors but the day-to-day functioning of the prisons, and therefore is strictly forbidden and immediately punished. However, some inmates still turn to violence, which raises doubts about whether these inmates are naturally violent and impossible to change. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with 27 inmates who have committed violence and remained in solitary confinement in prisons in Zhejiang Province, China, examines how the inmates make sense of and describe their violent experiences. It is found that these inmates make efforts to construct their victims as deserving, acts as controlled, and punishment as acceptable through employing discursive strategies such as resorting to traditional values, conditional sentences, and repetition. In so doing, these inmates seek to redefine who they are not, how they should not be treated and what prison life should not be like. This paper could open up ways of better understanding why violence could be reduced but impossible to be eliminated completely in the prison context.
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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