Abstract
Extreme Punishment examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil and military detention from criminal punishment. Together, the 11 chapters in this collection reveal how, in nominally distinct institutions, the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals, and how they experience their confinement as punitive. In the late 20th century, Foucault examined the pathologies common to a range of social institutions, including hospitals, schools, and prisons (1963, 1964, 1966, 1975). He suggested that each of these institutions exerts social control by disciplining individuals. Today, prisons represent the dominant institutional paradigm through which individuals experience this disciplining process. Increasingly, discipline has become synonymous with punishment.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ashworth. A & Zedner, L 2014, Preventive justice, Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Chacon, JM 2009, ‘Sidebar: managing migration through crime’, Columbia Law Reviav, vol. 109, pp. 135–48.
Cohen, S 1988, Against Criminology, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NT, pp. 235–76.
Contirt, S 2005, ‘Contesting criminality: illegal migration and spadalization of illegality’, Theoretical Criminology; vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 5–33.
Uayan, C 2011, The Law Is a White Dog. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
Feeley M & Simon, 1992, ‘The new penology: notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications’, Criminology, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 449–74.
Foucault, M 1963, 1994, The birth of the clinic: an archeology of medical perception, trans. AM Sheridan, Vintage Books, New York.
Foucault, M 1964, 1988, Madness and. civilization: a history of insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. AM Sheridan, Vintage Books, New York.
Foucault, M 1966, 1994, The order of things: an archeology of the human sciences, Vintage Books, New York.
Foucault, M 1975, 1995, Discipline and punish, trans. AM Sheridan, Vintage Books, New York.
GilHgan, J 2001, ‘The last mental hospital’, Psychiatric Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 1, pp.45–61.
Goffman, E 1961, Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patiesits and other inmates, Random House, Inc., New York.
Harcourt, BE 2011, ‘Reducing mass incarceration: lessons from the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s’, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 9, pp. 53–88.
Kanstroom, D 2007, Deportation nation: outsiders in American history Harvard University Press, Boston, MA.
Lcgomsky, SH 2007, ‘The new paih of immigration law: asymmetric incorporation of criminal justice norms’, Washington & Lee Law Review, vol. 6, pp. 469–528.
Lopez, MH & Gonzalez-Barrera, A 2013, ‘High rate of deportations continue under Obama despite Latino disapproval’, Pew Research Center, 19 September. Available from: <http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/19/high-rate-of-deportations-continue-under-obama-despite-latino-disapproval/>. [29 January 2015].
Stumpf, J 2011, ‘Doing time: erimmigratiori law & the perils of haste’, UCLA Law Re\iew, vol. 58, pp. 1705–48.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2015 Alexa Koenig and Keramet Reiter
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Koenig, A., Reiter, K. (2015). Introduction. In: Reiter, K., Koenig, A. (eds) Extreme Punishment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441157_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441157_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-56056-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-44115-7
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences CollectionSocial Sciences (R0)