The cultural prison: discourse, prisoners, and punishment
This book offers a comprehensive critical study of popular cultural representations of prisoners from 1950 to the present. Rather than attempting to explain the causes of crime or the actual conditions of prisons, or providing prescriptions for criminal justice policies, the author describes how pri...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book offers a comprehensive critical study of popular cultural representations of prisoners from 1950 to the present. Rather than attempting to explain the causes of crime or the actual conditions of prisons, or providing prescriptions for criminal justice policies, the author describes how prisoners and punishment have been represented in popular discourse, most notably along the lines of race and gender. The readings from the period 1950-59 represent the male prisoner as humorous, patriotic, Caucasian, and hapless. Both male and female prisoners are represented as having altruistic motives and as desiring a reunion with the culture previously shunned. During the period 1960-68, the failure of rehabilitation programs and a renewal of prison riots are cited as evidence for often competing depictions of the male prisoner Representation of the altruistic Caucasian continues, but a different sort of prisoner also emerges, one who becomes "African-Americanized," while seen as increasingly violent. Another split in the dominant representations of the male prisoner emerges during the period 1969-75. In the readings, although the white male prisoner remains forever open for rehabilitation and reunion, the other male prisoner divides into complex characterizations - both violent and both depicted as African-American. Weighted by the depictions of the past and plagued by economic and political events that increase the number of prisoners, the period 1975 to the present is depicted as a complex time when the public has adopted the concept of "just deserts" for prisoners and when the "willing" prisoner has emerged The "cultural prison" refers to the way in which this study acts as an investigation of "the discipline of discipline"; it is a study of the way in which discipline is shaped and formed in public discourse. The volume concludes with a fascinating account of the move to electronic means of surveillance, and coupled with the representations of the prisoner along the lines of race and gender, its explains what these new techniques mean to contemporary culture |
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The Cultural Prison
Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment
The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction: The Historical Force of
Rhetoric and the Disciplinary Force of Culture 1
2 Prelude to the Present: American Histories of Punishment 19
3 Rehabilitation and the Altruistic Inmate, 1950-1959 31
4 The Inmate Divide: Rehabilitation
and Immorality, 1960-1968 62
5 Rehabilitation, Revolution, and Irrationality, 1969-1974 90
6 The Meaning of Just Deserts:
Valuing Our Discipline, 1975-1993 132
7 Conclusions, Beginnings: Into the Future 185
Appendix 1 Theoretical Perspectives 197
Appendix 2 Differentiating Eras of Discourse 200
Contents / v
Appendix 3 Percentage of Prisoners in State
and Federal Prisons by Race and Gender 205
Notes 207
References 221
Index 241
vi / Contents
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