“我们把噩梦关在笼子里”:惩教文化、身份和扭曲的荣誉徽章

IF 4.6 1区 社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Ethan M. Higgins, Justin Smith, Kristin Swartz
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引用次数: 8

摘要

惩教学者对监禁状态对在押人员的非人性化影响表示关注。与此同时,人们也有兴趣了解监狱工作人员的工作,以及惩教亚文化如何在监狱非人性化中发挥积极作用。通过从一个州的所有监狱中抽取焦点小组,我们调查了惩教人员如何通过“我们-他们”的意识形态来构建和管理他们的身份。我们发现,工作人员利用对被监禁者的负面态度,而这些态度是由耸人听闻的文化故事和绰号支撑的。此外,我们发现工作人员用“他者”来对待被监禁的人,作为一种构建扭曲的荣誉徽章的手段,这表明他们在监狱工作中承担的负担,并将自己塑造成英雄、守护者和保护者。最后,我们讨论了我们的研究结果的含义,其中我们考虑了非人化如何说明了工作人员忍受的心理应对工作,以执行象征性暴力和拘留系统的非人化目标。
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“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*

Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–them” ideologies. We find that staff leverage negative attitudes toward the incarcerated, and that these attitudes were underpinned by sensational cultural stories and epithets. Moreover, we find that staff use “othering” toward the incarcerated as a means to construct a warped badge of honor, which illustrates the burdens they bear from prison work and which frames themselves as heroes, guardians, and protectors. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our findings, where we consider how dehumanization illustrates the mental coping work staff endure to carry out the symbolic violence and dehumanizing objectives of the carceral system.

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Criminology
Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
CiteScore
8.10
自引率
6.90%
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28
期刊介绍: Criminology is devoted to crime and deviant behavior. Disciplines covered in Criminology include: - sociology - psychology - design - systems analysis - decision theory Major emphasis is placed on empirical research and scientific methodology. Criminology"s content also includes articles which review the literature or deal with theoretical issues stated in the literature as well as suggestions for the types of investigation which might be carried out in the future.
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