Neoliberal prisons and cognitive treatment: Calibrating the subjectivity of incarcerated young men to economic inequalities

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Neoliberal prisons and cognitive treatment: Calibrating the subjectivity of incarcerated young men to economic inequalities

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Based on fieldwork conducted in a cognitive-treatment setting for young men in jail, this article argues that contemporary rehabilitation efforts not only manifest theories of disciplinary and risk society, but also embody ideologies of the self and economic relations that are consistent with neoliberal capitalism. Drawing from Marxist theories of penality, we show that correctional officers seek to reconfigure the subjectivity of young incarcerated men in ways that adjust them to economic in...

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2013-11

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Kramer, Ronald / Rajah, Valli / Sung, Hung-En

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/21464

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Social Sciences / Criminology & Penology / CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY / Cognitive treatment / discipline / imprisonment / juvenile reform / Marxism / rehabilitation / risk management / VIOLENT OFFENDERS / OFFICERS / RISK / LEGITIMACY / PENOLOGY / BLACK / POWER / RACE

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