Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory

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Portable Prisons is an exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. Through interviews and observations, Gacek demonstrates this technology is representative of the carceral state's overreaching punitive capabilities, rejecting the ide...

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Main Author: Gacek, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Electronic books
Scotland
Schottland > Kontrolle > Strafe > Elektronische Überwachung
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Portable Prisons is an exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. Through interviews and observations, Gacek demonstrates this technology is representative of the carceral state's overreaching punitive capabilities, rejecting the idea that "soft" punishment is related to decarceration.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (195 pages)
ISBN:9780228009443