Contemporary penality and psychoanalysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12609751
AutoresAmanda Matravers (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor de correspondencia), Shadd Maruna (0000-0002-4978-7073)
Año2004
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas118-144
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369823042000266558
OpenAlexW2079433155
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas28

In The Culture of Control Garland describes the ‘policy predicament’ of late modern society as involving the normality of high crime rates and the acknowledged limitations of the criminal justice system. This combination has triggered a contradictory range of policy responses that Garland describes as adaptive and non‐adaptive, with the non‐adaptive responses characterised as ‘denial’ and ‘acting out’. Garland’s invocation of these Freudian constructs invites a more fully developed psychoanalytic reading of the contemporary landscape of penal policy. Drawing on the writings of Jung and Freud as well as more recent psychoanalytic interpretations of punishment and punitiveness, we aim in this paper to put the Culture of Control ‘on the couch’. That is, we try to draw out some of the psychoanalytic themes that Garland so tantalisingly dangles before us, and begin to flesh out the implications of a full‐fledged psychoanalytic interpretation of Garland’s argument

Argument (complex analysis · Criminology · Epistemology · Freudian slip · Interpretation (philosophy · Invocation · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Anthropology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology