RT Article
T1 The Inca's two bodies: the prison condition in Latin America
JF Punishment in Latin America
SP 145
OP 159
A1 Ariza, Libardo José
A2 Tamayo Arboleda, Fernando León
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931462461
AB In this chapter, we show how physical violence is a central part of the prison experience in Latin America. Such a violence is perceived both a legally admitted and forbidden practice. In this sense, corporal punishment appears not as an imperfection, but rather an ordinary element of punitive power in the region. This strange existence of corporal punishment as permitted and forbidden violence ends up by legitimizing the punishment of the inmates in their physical body and their existence as a subject of law. This juxtaposition places prisoners’ bodies “betwixt and between” the natural world and the normative world of punishment. Thus, the life of prisoners is protected by law. Their indemnity is recognized, and their fundamental rights are guaranteed. However, at the same time, their lives are expendable.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 157-159
SN 9781837973293
K1 Prison
K1 Latin America
K1 Violence
K1 Body
K1 Punishment
K1 legal discourse