A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument
of punishment. Writing tends to be characterized as a positive
aspect of literacy that helps us to express our thoughts, to foster
interpersonal communication, and to archive ideas. However, there
is a vast array of evidence that emphasizes the counterbelief that
writing has the power to punish, shame, humiliate, control,
dehumanize, fetishize, and transform those who are subjected to it.
In Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life,
Spencer Schaffner looks at many instances of writing as punishment,
including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of
apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing
understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and
subjection. Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday
Life is a fascinating inquiry into how sinister writing can truly
be and directly questions the educational ideal that powerful
writing is invariably a public good. While Schaffner does look at
the darker side of writing, he neither vilifies nor supports the
practice of writing as punishment. Rather, he investigates the
question with humanistic inquiry and focuses on what can be learned
from understanding the many strange ways that writing as punishment
is used to accomplish fundamental objectives in everyday life.
Through five succinct case studies, we meet teachers, judges,
parents, sex traffickers, and drunken partiers who have turned to
writing because of its presumed power over writers and readers.
Schaffner provides careful analysis of familiar punishments, such
as schoolchildren copying lines, and more bizarre public rituals
that result in ink-covered bodies and individuals forced to hold
signs in public. Schaffner argues that writing-based punishment
should not be dismissed as benign or condemned as a misguided
perversion of writing, but instead should be understood as an
instrument capable of furthering both the aims of justice and
degradation.
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