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The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries
old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can
we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in
contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are
incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these
questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a
French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to
their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has
reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil
rights clash with the rationales and practices used to maintain
security and order. He also analyzes the concerns and compromises
of the correctional staff, the hardships and resistance of the
inmates, and the ways in which life on the inside intersects with
life on the outside. In the end, the carceral condition appears to
be irreducible to other forms of penalty both because of the chain
of privations it entails and because of the experience of
meaninglessness it comprises. Examined through ethnographic lenses,
prison worlds are thus both a reflection of society and its mirror.
At a time when many countries have begun to realize the impasse of
mass incarceration and question the consequences of the punitive
turn, this book will provide empirical and theoretical tools to
reflect on the meaning of punishment in contemporary societies.
The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries
old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can
we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in
contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are
incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these
questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a
French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to
their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has
reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil
rights clash with the rationales and practices used to maintain
security and order. He also analyzes the concerns and compromises
of the correctional staff, the hardships and resistance of the
inmates, and the ways in which life on the inside intersects with
life on the outside. In the end, the carceral condition appears to
be irreducible to other forms of penalty both because of the chain
of privations it entails and because of the experience of
meaninglessness it comprises. Examined through ethnographic lenses,
prison worlds are thus both a reflection of society and its mirror.
At a time when many countries have begun to realize the impasse of
mass incarceration and question the consequences of the punitive
turn, this book will provide empirical and theoretical tools to
reflect on the meaning of punishment in contemporary societies.
A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective
consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals,
morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts
explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this
important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography
of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the
exploration of moral economies. * Investigates the central legacies
of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the
context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities,
politics, humanitarianism * Features contributions from pioneers in
the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts
in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology,
evolutionary biology and neuroethics
Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the
riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have
followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police.
Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of
working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic
minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media
coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of
urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months,
at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an
ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris
region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the
patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the
imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he
uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by
inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor
infractions give rise to spectacular displays of force and where
officers express doubts about the significance and value of their
own jobs. Describing the invisible manifestations of violence and
unrecognized forms of discrimination against minority youngsters,
undocumented immigrants and Roma people, he analyses the conditions
that make them possible and tolerable, including entrenched
policies of segregation and stigmatization, economic
marginalization and racial discrimination. Richly documented and
compellingly told, this unique account of contemporary urban
policing shows that, instead of enforcing the law, the police are
engaged in the task of enforcing an unequal social order in the
name of public security.
Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the
riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have
followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police.
Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of
working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic
minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media
coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of
urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months,
at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an
ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris
region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the
patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the
imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he
uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by
inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor
infractions give rise to spectacular displays of force and where
officers express doubts about the significance and value of their
own jobs. Describing the invisible manifestations of violence and
unrecognized forms of discrimination against minority youngsters,
undocumented immigrants and Roma people, he analyses the conditions
that make them possible and tolerable, including entrenched
policies of segregation and stigmatization, economic
marginalization and racial discrimination. Richly documented and
compellingly told, this unique account of contemporary urban
policing shows that, instead of enforcing the law, the police are
engaged in the task of enforcing an unequal social order in the
name of public security.
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