Portable Prisons : Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory / James Gacek.
2022
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Author
Title
Portable Prisons : Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory / James Gacek.
Imprint
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Description
1 online resource (200 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Tracking Lives and Territories in the Carceral Age
Conceiving the "Carceral"
A Case for Carceral Territory
Observing the National Electronic Monitoring Centre
On the Move with G4S Scotland
Talking Territorially
Taking Back Territory
Notes
References
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Tracking Lives and Territories in the Carceral Age
Conceiving the "Carceral"
A Case for Carceral Territory
Observing the National Electronic Monitoring Centre
On the Move with G4S Scotland
Talking Territorially
Taking Back Territory
Notes
References
Index
Summary
The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces such as jails, prisons, and detention centres suggests that the carceral is becoming an increasingly prevalent presence in our lives, going beyond historical standards. The contemporary use of electronic monitoring extends carceral territory beyond prison walls, into people's homes and everyday lives.Empirically and empathetically driven, Portable Prisons is a telling exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. Electronic monitoring must be understood - in both intent and effect - as a carceral practice, an expression of the carceral state and its overreaching punitive capabilities. James Gacek demonstrates that various people experience punishment by means of restrictions around mobility, space, and time in ways that strongly overlap with the reported experiences of interviewed prisoners. Drawing attention to how the neoliberal state outsources the labour of punishment to private corporations and the punished themselves, he also rejects the idea that "soft" punishment is in any way related to the movement for decarceration.Offering an original contribution to our understanding of the geography of incarceration, Portable Prisons is a sophisticated account of electronic monitoring, underlining the growing significance of this field.
Language Note
In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Language
English
ISBN
9780228009436
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