RT Article
T1 Carceral churn: A sensorial ethnography of the bail and remand court
JF Punishment & society
VO 24
IS 2
SP 151
OP 169
A1 Russell, Emma K. 1986-
A2 Carlton and, Bree
A2 Tyson, Danielle
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/179695313X
AB This article discusses findings from an ethnographic study of a bail and remand court in Victoria, Australia. Through a focus on the sensory dimensions of forced movements within and through the bail court, the article contributes to the burgeoning sub-field of sensory criminology and develops the concept of ‘carceral churn’. The article argues that the bail court’s churn reproduces criminal and carceral subjects and is implicated in a project of carceral buildup. The churn of the bail court involves forms of mobility and exchange via the inter- and intra-carceral spaces that variously dull, distort, deprive or assault the senses with oppressive effects. This includes both ‘new’ and ‘old’ penal technologies such as holding cells, the custody dock, AV links and court-prison transport. The analysis of sensory violence challenges the notion that court ‘efficiency’ can improve justice experiences and outcomes and instead calls for increased attention to the harms and lethality that flow from carceral churn left un-checked.
K1 Sensory criminology
K1 Magistrates’ court
K1 Ethnography
K1 Carceral mobilities
DO 10.1177/1462474520967566