File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1998/foucault.9807, message 14


Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 20:36:38 -0700
From: T P Uschanov <tuschano-AT-cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: The prison industry (was Re: Is French Philosopy a load of old tosh?)


Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> wrote:

> When I first joined this list I asked if any Foucauldian (or
> is it Foucaultian?) had written on the evolution of the U.S.
> "criminal justice" system, which long ago left behind liberal
> notions of reformation for pure brutality, warehousing,
> and revenge. We now have crowds baying for blood outside
> prisons on execution nights (though the prisoner is inside,
> viewed only by a handful of lucky guests). No one answered.
> I'll try again.

One book that comes to mind immediately is "Crime Control as 
Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style?" by Nils Christie, 
the dean of Scandinavian humane criminologists (Routledge, 1994). 
Truly strong stuff, and such that few European Foucaultians 
probably think about it.

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know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." --Oliver Edwards
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