Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory Gacek James
Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory Gacek James The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces such as jails,…
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Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory Gacek James
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. Empirically and empathetically driven, Portable Prisons is a telling exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. The contemporary use of electronic monitoring extends carceral territory beyond prison walls, into people's homes and everyday lives.
James Gacek demonstrates that various people experience punishment by means of restrictions around mobility, space, and time in ways that strongly overlap with 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.
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