RT Article
T1 Punishment in "This Hard Land": conceptualising the prison in Power, Crime and Mystification
JF Demystifying power, crime and social harm
SP 507
OP 530
A1 Sim, Joe 1952-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/191660420X
AB This chapter focusses on Steven Box’s analysis of the prison in Power, Crime and Mystification and traces the continuities in the prison’s role in legitimating and maintaining a socially unjust, often barbaric and grossly unequal social order in the forty years since the book was published. Avoidable deaths in prison, and the harms the institution generates, provide a case study of Box’s concept of mystification where the focus on the ‘abnormal’ characteristics of the deceased, and their families, has become the dominant state ‘truth’ about the dead thereby hiding, disavowing and marginalising the prison’s role in these deaths. Finally, the chapter considers Box’s demand for state institutions to be democratically accountable, a demand, which, forty years on, remains entirely relevant to thinking about delivering social justice in the twenty-first century.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 527-530
SN 9783031462122
K1 Strafe
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Großbritannien