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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Carceral state"”.
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Existing But Not Living: Neo-Civil Death And The Carceral State
<p>In 2010, the United States prison releases exceeded prison admission for the first time since the Bureau of Justice Statistics began collecting jurisdictional data in 1977. Prisoner reentry--the transition from prison to community--has grown exponentially in the 21st century. While individuals …
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Carceral intimacies: Family, racialization, and El Salvador’s carceral state under authoritarian politics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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The Democratic Deficit in American Policing
… to facilitate democratic accountability for carceral state actors more broadly, and municipal police, more narrowly. First, I evaluate an increasingly common institutional reform in municipal governance – civilian oversight boards. This research demonstrates that oversight boards are …
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Uninventing Carceral Technology: Four Experiments in Imagining the World More Rigorously
… of what is possible in the context of the carceral state. By carceral state, I mean the expansive system of state-sanctioned capture, confinement, and control that underpins our current unjust social order. Drawing on rich intellectual traditions such as feminist, Indigenous, and Black …
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Prison Siting in Appalachia: Carceral Expansion, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Harm
<p>Since 1991, 14 state and federal prisons have been built in Appalachia with a recent proposal for a federal prison to be constructed in Letcher County, KY. Contradicting the narrative that Appalachia remains separated from the national economy, the ills of carceral growth are apparent throughout …
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
… and encompass the ever-extending reach of the carceral State in the twenty-first century. This new form of prison writing can be better understood as carceral writing, as its focus extends beyond the prison cell, and aligns with the newly established field of carceral studies, to which this …
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The Neoliberal Construction of Immigration as Crisis
… as ‘business as usual’ in the neoliberal state. This paper highlights the connection between neoliberal policies and negative public perceptions of immigrants. Neoliberal policies disenfranchise citizens and immigrants alike, yet the public’s misinterpretation of both economic and …
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Challenging Notions of the Ideal Victim: Identifying and Stereotyping Human Trafficking in the Midwest
… Next, I move to an analysis of the role of the carceral state in anti-trafficking efforts; namely, the reliance on practices of detention, incarceration, and deportation in anti-trafficking efforts. I shift to address the ways emotional labor complicates and rewards service providers with …
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Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic
… addresses the development of the contemporary US carceral state, foregrounding the confinement and control of women and the evolving ideological frameworks and disciplinary techniques that guided women’s incarceration beginning with the inception of state-run women’s prisons in the nineteenth …
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Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
… the haunting effects of the settler-colonial carceral state in the everyday lives of formerly incarcerated people.
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Pedagogies of Abolition: A Phenomenological Exploration of Radical Study in Black Trans Communities
… prisons function as enclosures of Black life. Carceral progressivism positions education as a solution to societal oppression by “emancipating” students from enclosures, rather than actually abolishing the conditions that create said enclosures (Shange 2019). This is an example of how …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… who have begun to theorize what has been termed “carceral visuality,” or the intertwined hegemonic ideological and visual frameworks that discipline how citizens see and think about incarceration. I examine how carceral visuality operates in distinct, but interconnected ways across four prison …
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From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1968-1988
… the process that gave rise to the modern carceral state in the decades after the Civil Rights Movement. The dissertation examines the development of the national law enforcement program during its initial two decades, from the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Irish women’s writing is entangled in reductive narratives of modernisation that create a feel-good account of contemporary Ireland, disavowing the structures of domination and exclusion that continue to define the country. Ireland’s …
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Policing the Project: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing
… contributed to making public housing into a carceral space: one that resembled the prison in design and management and also funneled residents into the criminal-legal system. Writing against popular narratives of public housing as an inherent site of crime and violence, this project instead …
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Forging a Social Science of Prevention in the United States, 1950-2005
… science,” a field that coalesced in the United States during the 1990s. Prevention scientists borrow methods from public health and evidence-based medicine to design preventative interventions for a range of problems they deem detrimental to healthy development—e.g. substance use, delinquency, …
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Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System
… examines the ways Black women are impacted by carceral ideology; from punitive definitions of Black womanhood, to the surveillance on Black femme familial intimacy and the rupture of Black women’s sense of home and place. Understandings of mass incarceration are frequently male-centered and …