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PRISONERS, COWS AND ABATTOIRS: THE CLOSING OF CANADA'S PRISON FARMS AS A POLITICAL PENAL DRAMA.
- Source :
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British Journal of Criminology . Jul2016, Vol. 56 Issue 4, p793-812. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- In 2009, the Canadian government announced its decision to close six federal prison farms. Although the programme only impacted about 300 prisoners, the decision sparked the creation of a social movement dedicated to fighting to keep the farms operational, and the closures became a sizeable news story in Canada. We argue that actors on both sides of the farm closure issue used it as fuel for staging and capitalizing on a political penal drama. Our findings suggest conservatives do not have a monopoly over using penal dramas to achieve political and social aims and that penal dramas can be extremely productive--well beyond debates over prisoners and prisons. Thus, penal dramas help us capture the nuanced orientation of a particular penal field, which cannot be understood apart from its cast of interested actors or the national, state/provincial or local contexts in which it is embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PRISONERS
*SLAUGHTERING
*PRISONS
*SOCIAL movements
*CRIMINAL justice system
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00070955
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Criminology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116076400
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv078