Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
Ben Franklin’s World Jen Manion American prisons are overcrowded. The… Read More »Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
Theory
This theme includes resources having to do with theories about mass incarceration and societal power structures and the theorists who developed them, as well materials for ideas about teaching these subjects in the classroom. Users looking for material on a particular theorist, theory, or teaching philosophy will find it here. We welcome feedback on this organization during our beta period.
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault In this important work, Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms… Read More »Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical… Read More »Are Prisons Obsolete?
Early Modern Prisons
Exploring gaols, bridewells and other forms of detention, 1500-1800 Rachel… Read More »Early Modern Prisons
Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony
Dialectical Anthropology Loïc Wacquant December 23, 2010 The carceral boom… Read More »Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony
Foucault and the “Lesson” of the Prisoner Support Movement
New Political Science 34.1 Marcelo Hoffman February 14, 2002 Shocked… Read More »Foucault and the “Lesson” of the Prisoner Support Movement
(Non)Scenes of Captivity: The Common Sense of Punishment and Death
Radical History Review Dylan Rodríguez October 1, 2006 Article about… Read More »(Non)Scenes of Captivity: The Common Sense of Punishment and Death
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