Liam Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2901-5623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Locked In
This article examines the “prison platform” as a novel technology of digital confinement. The focus is how United States multinational Honeywell established a prison platform in Australia and New Zealand, neighboring settler colonies where the Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty, and prison systems continue to be stamped by deeply entrenched patterns of Indigenous hyperincarceration. While studies of digital colonialism have tended to focu…
The birth of the digital prison
Punishment and society scholars studying the dramatic increase in “carceral capacity” during the rise of US mass incarceration have tended to focus narrowly on prison construction. Drawing from research on digital punishment and the shadow carceral state, I shift attention instead to the expansion of carceral capacity through the creation of a new method of social control—digital incarceration—designed to annex and re-purpose infrastructure osten…
The Habilitation Centre Ideal
This article examines the potential role of ‘habilitation centres’ in the Labour government’s attempts to reduce the prison population, starting with the recent recommendations of an expert panel who called for the ‘gradual replacement of most prisons with community-based habilitation centres’. I trace this idea to the Roper report in the 1980s, showing how its emergence in Aotearoa New Zealand was shaped by problematic models of community correc…
Halfway House
Halfway House draws on three and a half years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork to open a window on the little-known web of organizations governing prisoner reentry at the frontier of mass incarceration. It tells the story of Joe Badillo, along with a small cast of connected characters, following the ups and downs of his unfolding experience as he leaves jail and searches for a place in the world outside while confronting overwhelming obstacles…
Free but Still Walking the Yard
This paper draws on nine months of ethnographic research living in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners to theorize the embodied experience of reentry. I treat prison release as a sudden change in social position, in which people with deeply ingrained prison habits and dispositions confront new patterns of daily life in the outside world. This mismatch between embodiment and environment can create significant problems: triggering …
Reentry Within the Carceral
Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself Will Be Ruined
Much analytical commentary implies that a generic West is the principal target of jihadist activism. This study contends that this is a misconception fostered by jihadist groups like Al Qaeda in order to accentuate their stature in the Islamic world and to obscure their true aims, which are first and foremost to secure the dominance of the Salafist interpretation of Islam. The analysis situates Al Qaeda in the tradition of Islamic reform movement…
Free but Still Walking the Yard
This paper draws on nine months of ethnographic research living in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners to theorize the embodied experience of reentry. I treat prison release as a sudden change in social position, in which people with deeply ingrained prison habits and dispositions confront new patterns of daily life in the outside world. This mismatch between embodiment and environment can create significant problems: triggering …
Reentry Within the Carceral
The birth of the digital prison
Punishment and society scholars studying the dramatic increase in “carceral capacity” during the rise of US mass incarceration have tended to focus narrowly on prison construction. Drawing from research on digital punishment and the shadow carceral state, I shift attention instead to the expansion of carceral capacity through the creation of a new method of social control—digital incarceration—designed to annex and re-purpose infrastructure osten…
Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself Will Be Ruined
Much analytical commentary implies that a generic West is the principal target of jihadist activism. This study contends that this is a misconception fostered by jihadist groups like Al Qaeda in order to accentuate their stature in the Islamic world and to obscure their true aims, which are first and foremost to secure the dominance of the Salafist interpretation of Islam. The analysis situates Al Qaeda in the tradition of Islamic reform movement…
Reentry Within the Carceral
Free but Still Walking the Yard
This paper draws on nine months of ethnographic research living in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners to theorize the embodied experience of reentry. I treat prison release as a sudden change in social position, in which people with deeply ingrained prison habits and dispositions confront new patterns of daily life in the outside world. This mismatch between embodiment and environment can create significant problems: triggering …
Halfway House
Halfway House draws on three and a half years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork to open a window on the little-known web of organizations governing prisoner reentry at the frontier of mass incarceration. It tells the story of Joe Badillo, along with a small cast of connected characters, following the ups and downs of his unfolding experience as he leaves jail and searches for a place in the world outside while confronting overwhelming obstacles…
The Habilitation Centre Ideal
This article examines the potential role of ‘habilitation centres’ in the Labour government’s attempts to reduce the prison population, starting with the recent recommendations of an expert panel who called for the ‘gradual replacement of most prisons with community-based habilitation centres’. I trace this idea to the Roper report in the 1980s, showing how its emergence in Aotearoa New Zealand was shaped by problematic models of community correc…
Locked In
This article examines the “prison platform” as a novel technology of digital confinement. The focus is how United States multinational Honeywell established a prison platform in Australia and New Zealand, neighboring settler colonies where the Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty, and prison systems continue to be stamped by deeply entrenched patterns of Indigenous hyperincarceration. While studies of digital colonialism have tended to focu…
The birth of the digital prison
Punishment and society scholars studying the dramatic increase in “carceral capacity” during the rise of US mass incarceration have tended to focus narrowly on prison construction. Drawing from research on digital punishment and the shadow carceral state, I shift attention instead to the expansion of carceral capacity through the creation of a new method of social control—digital incarceration—designed to annex and re-purpose infrastructure osten…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works)