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Limits to Pain
01 Nov 1981-
About: The article was published on 1981-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 228 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the implications of the "imprisonment queue" in Norway and show that while interviewees waiting to serve their sentences enjoy certain benefits such as being able to prepare for or negotiate the terms of their imprisonment, they also suffer from uncertainty and powerlessness.
Abstract: This article explores the implications of the ‘imprisonment queue’ in Norway. Based on interview data (N = 200), we show that while interviewees waiting to serve their sentences enjoy certain benefits such as being able to prepare for or negotiate the terms of their imprisonment, they also suffer from uncertainty and powerlessness. The suspension of their lives while they wait hinders them in pursuing their ground projects, things that really matter to them. This peculiar phenomenon has not received attention from prison scholars generally, as well as scholars writing on Nordic Exceptionalism specifically. This article addresses that gap and poses questions about the relative mildness of the short Norwegian sentences, and more broadly, about what constitutes punishment.
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TL;DR: The authors found the slogan used as the title of this paper one sunny and cold Sunday morning in winter, 1985, on a vertical steel bar in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, above the East River, written with that ugly black ink that has replaced the bright colours of earlier years of graffiti in New York.
Abstract: I found the slogan used as the title of this paper one sunny and cold Sunday morning in winter, 1985, on a vertical steel bar in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, above the East River, written with that ugly black ink that has replaced the bright colours of earlier years of graffiti in New York. Still, in contrast to the meaningless scribblings or markings of warrior names usually found in Manhattan these days, the message is nearly a joyful one: there is no point in expecting or demanding a “just society” from a state or other authorities — we will have to look after that ourselves and we can do it. By implication the writer also tells us what popular demands for “justice” really mean: an end to in justice. They are not “positive” demands, but in fact criticisms of some state of affairs or measures taken (or not taken) by the authorities: we know very well what is not just, even though we may not know what a “just” society should look like, and may even be sceptical whether we would like to live in one.
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TL;DR: The history of the pardon power, some relevant developments in the sentencing and correctional process since the late 19th century, and pardon's steep decline over the past hundred years are discussed in this paper.
Abstract: These observations have three goals. First, we open with a guided tour through the Issue’s fourteen articles and seventeen appendix documents. Next, we examine the history of the pardon power, some relevant developments in the sentencing and correctional process since the late 19th century, and pardon’s steep decline over the past hundred years. Finally, we suggest some principles to guide the relationship between pardon power and sentencing policy. Many of the materials here take issue with, or draw lessons from, President Clinton’s controversial pardons during his final year in office. While it is premature—because of pending investigations—to draw final conclusions about the wisdom or propriety of individual acts of clemency, we trust that readers will find much of value in the intriguing studies and spirited debate offered by our contributors.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that imprisonment in military realms fundamentally upsets and disturbs the legitimizing logics that are conventionally applied to penal detention, and that military licence appears to open spaces within which otherwise universal human rights protections, safeguards, and guarantees are compromised, if not utterly negated.
Abstract: This chapter subjects the practices of imprisonment within military realms to critical analysis. Imprisonment in military realms assumes diverse and multitudinous forms and is more-or-less globally pervasive. Notwithstanding this, it has largely evaded criminological attention. By examining three different ‘case studies’—the detention of Armed Services personnel in Service Custody Facilities and the Military Corrective Training Centre in the UK, the imprisonment of Palestinian children in military custody in Israel, and the incarceration of ‘suspected enemy combatants’ in US-managed military detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba—it is argued that imprisonment in military realms fundamentally upsets and disturbs the legitimizing logics that are conventionally applied to penal detention. To put it another way, ‘military licence’ appears to open spaces within which otherwise universal human rights protections, safeguards, and guarantees are compromised, if not utterly negated. The chapter concludes by considering the conceptual and theoretical implications of this for future criminology/ies.
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01 Jun 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors illustrate the value of the activist archive for critical prisons research by using the campaign against the punitive segregation of women in high-security men's prisons in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia, as a case study, and demonstrate the extent to which the archive can yield a powerful arsenal of accounts, critiques and organizing strategies for anti-carceral feminist movements.
Abstract: Feminist activism has played an important role in documenting, highlighting and challenging carceral violence against women within and beyond prison walls. Using the campaign against the punitive segregation of women in high-security men’s prisons in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia, as a case study, we illustrate the value of the activist archive for critical prisons research. The activist archive has the potential to expose continuities in carceral violence, highlight the limitations and potentialities of legal and official oversight processes, and debunk official rhetoric of the prison’s reformative and rehabilitative potential. Our discussion demonstrates the extent to which the activist archive can yield a powerful arsenal of accounts, critiques and organising strategies for anti-carceral feminist movements. El activismo feminista ha desempenado un importante papel a la hora de documentar, subrayar y cuestionar la violencia carcelaria contra las mujeres, dentro y fuera de las prisiones. Utilizando como estudio de caso la campana contra la segregacion punitiva de mujeres en prisiones de alta seguridad para hombres en los anos 80 y 90 en Victoria, Australia, ilustramos el valor del archivo del activismo para la investigacion critica sobre las prisiones. Dicho archivo tiene el potencial de exponer la continuidad de la violencia carcelaria, subrayar las limitaciones y potencialidades de los procesos de revision legales y oficiales, y desmontar el discurso oficial sobre la capacidad reformatoria y rehabilitadora de la prision. Nuestra tesis demuestra que el archivo activista puede dotar al movimiento feminista anticarcelario de un rico muestrario de testimonios, criticas y estrategias organizativas. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0929
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