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Pratt, John; Anderson, Jordan

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“…The assignment proposals arising from the RAU assessment reflect the weight of the political and social context on the RAU organization, the complexity of a logic to manage flows in a context of overcrowded prisons and professional logics of protection from risk. The RAU is an archetype, for prisons, of what Pratt and Anderson (2020) analyzed as a “revolt against uncertainty”. Indeed, some 70% of the prisoners assessed in the RAU are sent into solitary confinement and 20% are planned to be transferred to a collective supervision unit for “violent prisoners”.…”

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Performing the enemy? No-risk logic and the assessment of prisoners in “radicalization assessment units” in French prisons

Chantraine

Scheer

2020

Punishment & Society

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This article is based on a sociological research, combining qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations, undertaken in “radicalization assessment units” (RAU) in French prisons. The RAUs are units that hold, for a fixed period of time, a dozen prisoners described as “Islamic terrorists” or “suspected radicalization” so that a multidisciplinary team can evaluate their degree of radicalization. In the first section we will show how the climate of terrorist attacks during the period prior to opening of the RAUs not only engendered a warlike rhetoric that would overdetermine the decline of trust in detention. It also engendered institutional improvisation whereby these special units were set up one after another without much preparation. Secondly, we will detail the RAU’s security organization and the warlike relationship that grew between the guards and prisoners, between radical defiance and criminology of the Other. In the third section we will return to the evaluation work itself. During this evaluation work in the RAU, although each professional makes efforts to refine the prisoners’ profiles, the job is deeply biased by an obsession to fight against the “ taqîya” and against “dissimulators”. Lastly, at the end of the evaluation, the evaluation summary and recommendations for final orientation are overdetermined by the imperative to avoid professional risks.

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Performing the enemy? No-risk logic and the assessment of prisoners in “radicalization assessment units” in French prisons

Chantraine

Scheer

2020

Punishment & Society

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When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

Jiménez

2021

Laws

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The objective of this article is to answer the question of when an increase in criminal legislation is necessary. To this end, a review was conducted on the positions that deal directly or peripherally with increases in criminal legislation, with a focus on how these positions relate to increases, such as the more general positions related to “law and social change”, as well as the more specific positions related to penal inflation and “penal populism”. Special reference will be made to the expansion thesis, which, in general, has been well received in Ibero-America. In the second section of this study, the answer to the question is addressed, considering elements from the “law and social change” approach and Sutherland’s reflections on white-collar criminality.

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Performing the enemy? No-risk logic and the assessment of prisoners in “radicalization assessment units” in French prisons

Performing the enemy? No-risk logic and the assessment of prisoners in “radicalization assessment units” in French prisons

When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

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