Michaela Soyer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 255044 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michaela Soyer |
| NOMBRES | Michaela |
| APELLIDO | Soyer |
| FIRMA | SOYER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Hunter College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The price of freedom criminalization and the management of outsiders in Germany and the USA
Surviving Solitary
Weak Ties—Strong Emotions
The interactions with staff members, clinicians, and probation officers are either fleeting or are shaped by power imbalance and mistrust. Even as they are embedded in a network of social workers, clinicians, and regular staff members, the young men realize that these connections are temporary and won’t translate into sustained support on the outside.
Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems
Chapter 2 introduces the teenagers in this study and provides a précis of the structural conditions of juvenile justice at both field sites. The two systems are contextualized within historical and contemporary developments of juvenile justice in the United States.
The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process
Chapter 1 connects the narrative of the American dream to the teenagers' cycles of desistance and recidivism. The rhetoric of the American dream generates unrealistic expectations about desisting from crime. The concepts of “imagined desistance,” “automatic desistance,” and “creative desistance” capture the discrepancy between theory and practice of the reentry process.
Conclusion
and Keywords to be supplied.
Imagining Desistance
The concept of “imagined desistance” accounts for the observation that all the young men who participated in this study are convinced that they won’t be rearrested after their initial stay at a detention facility. The institutional structures of juvenile justice encourage teenagers to frame their incarceration as a positive turning point, but they don’t allow young men to create a nondeviant identity that is built on positive experiences of an al…
The Uncertainty of Freedom
After their release from juvenile justice facilities, many teenagers have to wear ankle bracelets and are supervised by probation officers or caseworkers. Being constantly supervised conflicts with the teenagers’ narrative of agency and self-reliance. On the other hand, it allows them to negotiate a volatile environment and to go through a manageable process of rehabilitation without confronting persisting and disempowering structural forces.
Too Little Too Late
Chapter 3 focuses on the youths’ experiences of the punitive and rehabilitative aspects of juvenile justice. This chapter contextualizes depictions of inner-city men as being subject to top-down control mechanisms within a range of alternatives. Left without any support from the juvenile justice system, poverty and violence are as limiting as constant supervision and control.
“I know how to control myself”
Relying on Michel Foucault’s lectures, published as Hermeneutics of the Subject, chapter 7 presents the distinction between “creative desistance” and “automatic desistance.” Based on four cases studies, these concepts describe different strategies of action that develop in response to specific structural limitations the juvenile justice system imposed.
A Dream Denied
'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and fru…
Dream Denied
A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America shows how the narrative of American dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American dream helps the teenagers cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves …
The Imagination of Desistance
Journal Article The Imagination of Desistance: A Juxtaposition of the Construction of Incarceration as a Turning Point and the Reality of Recidivism Get access Michaela Soyer Michaela Soyer * * The Justice Center for Research, Penn State University, 327 Pond Building, University Park, PA 16802, [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2…
We Knew Our Time Had Come
Relying on interviews with Jews who were interned in three Polish ghettos during World War II—Piotrokow, Tarnow, and Lachwa—this study clarifies the mechanism by which the perception of threat can motivate collective resistance. As these data show, the normal response to extreme oppression is a reliance on microsocial ties to secure survival; available resources are focused on the protection of those ties rather than committed to collective resis…
Off the corner and into the kitchen
Drawing on ethnographic data about 15 juvenile offenders, collected before and after my own pregnancy, this article shows how becoming a mother enabled me to access a previously closed-off research site while studying young male offenders on Chicago's South Side. In this study, I introspectively reflect on the obstacles female ethnographers may encounter as they are trying to build rapport in a male-dominated setting. My narrative shows that the …
Beyond Warsaw and Łódź
This essay develops a narrative of survival and resistance in three smaller Polish ghettos, Pitrokow, Tarnow and Lachwa. Drawing from archival sources and new interviews, it asserts that residents of the Jewish ghettos were obliged to marshal a full range of creative responses. Survival depended on success as an economic, political and social actor. Evidence for this adaptability supports Yehuda Bauer’s emphasis on ‘amidah’ and confirms his asser…
The Ghost is Back, Again
This paper proposes to re-read Marx's oeuvre through the cultural narrative of the Golem. It suggests that this narrative reappeared in the writings of Karl Marx throughout his career. There are three typical parts in this narrative: (a) the will of men to be empowered; (b) the use of a non-human material instrument to garner this power; culminating in (c) the instrument developing an autonomous spirit, which fatefully makes it turn against its m…
The Golem Narrative in Max Weber's Work
This paper provides a new metaphor for reading Weber's writings by exposing an underlying cultural pattern–the Golem narrative–and showing how it is reflected in Weber's work. We depict the Jewish story of the Golem and the German demonic version of the narrative as presented in the movie Der Golem. We analyze the structure of this story and distinguish three components in this cultural narrative: the will to be empowered; the use of a non-human …
Off the corner and into the kitchen
Drawing on ethnographic data about 15 juvenile offenders, collected before and after my own pregnancy, this article shows how becoming a mother enabled me to access a previously closed-off research site while studying young male offenders on Chicago's South Side. In this study, I introspectively reflect on the obstacles female ethnographers may encounter as they are trying to build rapport in a male-dominated setting. My narrative shows that the …
We Knew Our Time Had Come
Relying on interviews with Jews who were interned in three Polish ghettos during World War II—Piotrokow, Tarnow, and Lachwa—this study clarifies the mechanism by which the perception of threat can motivate collective resistance. As these data show, the normal response to extreme oppression is a reliance on microsocial ties to secure survival; available resources are focused on the protection of those ties rather than committed to collective resis…
The Imagination of Desistance
Journal Article The Imagination of Desistance: A Juxtaposition of the Construction of Incarceration as a Turning Point and the Reality of Recidivism Get access Michaela Soyer Michaela Soyer * * The Justice Center for Research, Penn State University, 327 Pond Building, University Park, PA 16802, [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2…
The Ghost is Back, Again
This paper proposes to re-read Marx's oeuvre through the cultural narrative of the Golem. It suggests that this narrative reappeared in the writings of Karl Marx throughout his career. There are three typical parts in this narrative: (a) the will of men to be empowered; (b) the use of a non-human material instrument to garner this power; culminating in (c) the instrument developing an autonomous spirit, which fatefully makes it turn against its m…
The Golem Narrative in Max Weber's Work
This paper provides a new metaphor for reading Weber's writings by exposing an underlying cultural pattern–the Golem narrative–and showing how it is reflected in Weber's work. We depict the Jewish story of the Golem and the German demonic version of the narrative as presented in the movie Der Golem. We analyze the structure of this story and distinguish three components in this cultural narrative: the will to be empowered; the use of a non-human …
The Ghost is Back, Again
This paper proposes to re-read Marx's oeuvre through the cultural narrative of the Golem. It suggests that this narrative reappeared in the writings of Karl Marx throughout his career. There are three typical parts in this narrative: (a) the will of men to be empowered; (b) the use of a non-human material instrument to garner this power; culminating in (c) the instrument developing an autonomous spirit, which fatefully makes it turn against its m…
Beyond Warsaw and Łódź
This essay develops a narrative of survival and resistance in three smaller Polish ghettos, Pitrokow, Tarnow and Lachwa. Drawing from archival sources and new interviews, it asserts that residents of the Jewish ghettos were obliged to marshal a full range of creative responses. Survival depended on success as an economic, political and social actor. Evidence for this adaptability supports Yehuda Bauer’s emphasis on ‘amidah’ and confirms his asser…
The Imagination of Desistance
Journal Article The Imagination of Desistance: A Juxtaposition of the Construction of Incarceration as a Turning Point and the Reality of Recidivism Get access Michaela Soyer Michaela Soyer * * The Justice Center for Research, Penn State University, 327 Pond Building, University Park, PA 16802, [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2…
We Knew Our Time Had Come
Relying on interviews with Jews who were interned in three Polish ghettos during World War II—Piotrokow, Tarnow, and Lachwa—this study clarifies the mechanism by which the perception of threat can motivate collective resistance. As these data show, the normal response to extreme oppression is a reliance on microsocial ties to secure survival; available resources are focused on the protection of those ties rather than committed to collective resis…
Off the corner and into the kitchen
Drawing on ethnographic data about 15 juvenile offenders, collected before and after my own pregnancy, this article shows how becoming a mother enabled me to access a previously closed-off research site while studying young male offenders on Chicago's South Side. In this study, I introspectively reflect on the obstacles female ethnographers may encounter as they are trying to build rapport in a male-dominated setting. My narrative shows that the …
Weak Ties—Strong Emotions
The interactions with staff members, clinicians, and probation officers are either fleeting or are shaped by power imbalance and mistrust. Even as they are embedded in a network of social workers, clinicians, and regular staff members, the young men realize that these connections are temporary and won’t translate into sustained support on the outside.
Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems
Chapter 2 introduces the teenagers in this study and provides a précis of the structural conditions of juvenile justice at both field sites. The two systems are contextualized within historical and contemporary developments of juvenile justice in the United States.
The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process
Chapter 1 connects the narrative of the American dream to the teenagers' cycles of desistance and recidivism. The rhetoric of the American dream generates unrealistic expectations about desisting from crime. The concepts of “imagined desistance,” “automatic desistance,” and “creative desistance” capture the discrepancy between theory and practice of the reentry process.
Conclusion
and Keywords to be supplied.
Imagining Desistance
The concept of “imagined desistance” accounts for the observation that all the young men who participated in this study are convinced that they won’t be rearrested after their initial stay at a detention facility. The institutional structures of juvenile justice encourage teenagers to frame their incarceration as a positive turning point, but they don’t allow young men to create a nondeviant identity that is built on positive experiences of an al…
The Uncertainty of Freedom
After their release from juvenile justice facilities, many teenagers have to wear ankle bracelets and are supervised by probation officers or caseworkers. Being constantly supervised conflicts with the teenagers’ narrative of agency and self-reliance. On the other hand, it allows them to negotiate a volatile environment and to go through a manageable process of rehabilitation without confronting persisting and disempowering structural forces.
Too Little Too Late
Chapter 3 focuses on the youths’ experiences of the punitive and rehabilitative aspects of juvenile justice. This chapter contextualizes depictions of inner-city men as being subject to top-down control mechanisms within a range of alternatives. Left without any support from the juvenile justice system, poverty and violence are as limiting as constant supervision and control.
“I know how to control myself”
Relying on Michel Foucault’s lectures, published as Hermeneutics of the Subject, chapter 7 presents the distinction between “creative desistance” and “automatic desistance.” Based on four cases studies, these concepts describe different strategies of action that develop in response to specific structural limitations the juvenile justice system imposed.
A Dream Denied
'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and fru…
Dream Denied
A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America shows how the narrative of American dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American dream helps the teenagers cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves …
The price of freedom criminalization and the management of outsiders in Germany and the USA
Surviving Solitary
Sociology (15 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (11 obras) · Criminology (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Narrative (7 obras) · Economic Justice (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras)