When to punish is not to discipline

Based on our ethnographic work in a Venezuelan prison, we discuss how state power withdraws from the carceral space, which fosters the emergence of forms of inmate self-rule. The state’s abdication of its traditional disciplinary role constitutes a displacement of a prison order produced “from above...

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Main Author: Antillano, Andrés (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Carceral communities in Latin America
Year: 2021, Pages: 39-60
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