RT Article
T1 Social environments of pervasive incarceration: lessons from Australia’s top end
JF Tracing the relationship between inequality, crime, and punishment
SP 199
OP 221
A1 Western, Bruce 1964-
A2 Sirois, Catherine
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1879543494
AB U.S. mass incarceration is characterized by pervasive imprisonment among black men with little schooling that is often viewed as the product of punitive criminal justice policy. This chapter argues that pervasive incarceration also arises under a specific set of social conditions that make police contact and detention overwhelmingly likely. This work explores the social conditions of pervasive incarceration in a significantly less punitive policy context, in Australia’s Northern Territory where social inequality is acute and incarceration is woven into everyday life. Interviews and field observation in this region show that pervasive indigenous incarceration emerges in a historical context of racial inequality marked by extreme material hardship, violent family conflict and alcohol abuse. Where violence is coupled to poverty, penal institutions respond expansively to myriad social problems - including serious violence.
SN 9780197266922
K1 Indigenous
K1 Incarceration
K1 Violence
K1 Poverty
K1 Racial inequality
K1 Australia
DO 10.5871/bacad/9780197266922.003.0008