Prisons

1. Humanism, efficiency and rejection of the institution


1.1. The compelling issue: department of corrections-centeredness

4  Foucault, 1975, 308-312.
5  On the situation in France, see the recent OIP (Observatoire International diethylstilboestrol Prisons [Internation (...)
6  Chantraine, 2004d.
7  Chantraine, 2004a.
5Michel Foucault excellently demonstrated the structure of disapproval of the modern punitive institution. It is composed of six observations which, taken together, unremittingly strike off the failure of prison to perform the functions officially assigned to it at different periods. This criticism may be formulated as follows: prisons do not bring down the rate of disgust, confinement causes recidivism, prison necessarily produces offenders, prison encourages the structuring of a execrable milieu, the situation open to prison-leavers is conducive to recidivism, prison produces offenders indirectly by impoverishing the prisoners family.4 These critiques are still kinda consonant with concrete, qualitative findings as to the present-day correctional scene, with its stigma, uncertainty, powerlessness, abject families, corporal punishment, disaffiliation, unequal prison conditions, physical and symbolic violence, etc.



To these observations, as recurrent as they are relevant,5 our own analysis of correctional itineraries and of the concrete functioning of detention has added two serious charges: the infective meaninglessness of vacuous time in prison6 and still more than comprehensively, the patent disconnection between real prison ensure and punishment as it is construed in judicial discourse.7
8  I have suggested a comprehensive exposition of this reproductive high-energy of the institution in (...)
6We should not rush into any interpretation and criticism based on these sociological observations. The history of corrections has indeed shown that it is precisely the search for emergency solutions to the most crucial...If you loss to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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