RT Article
T1 Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism
JF Crime, media, culture
VO 19
IS 1
SP 95
OP 113
A1 Carrier, Nicolas 1975-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1835729991
AB Despite gaining significant cultural and academic currency, penal abolitionism remains unable to radically problematize the punishment of individuals found responsible of exceptionally disturbing acts of criminalized violence. Through an empirical examination of a recent Canadian controversy over penal governance articulated to the transfer of a ?monster? to a correctional healing lodge, the article makes legible our difficulties in communicating about appropriate responses to exceptional criminalized incidents which would forgo the use of afflictive sanctions as retaliatory harms. Engaging penal abolitionism empirically, theoretically and normatively, the article notably suggests that the limits of penal abolitionism can be explicated by the fact that its critique is premised on an instrumentalist conception of penalty which neglects the communicational function of punishment.
K1 Correctional healing lodges
K1 Dangerousness
K1 Desert
K1 modern penal rationality
K1 moralization
K1 penal abolitionism
K1 Retribution
DO 10.1177/1741659022108653