Psychopathy and the Face of Control in Supermax

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2402188
AutoresLorna A Rhodes (University of Washington, Seattle, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume3
Fascículo4
Páginas442-466
Data de publicação2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1466138102003004016
OpenAlexW2066407048
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas28

In `supermaximum' or control prisons, inmates described as the `worst of the worst' are held in solitary cells under intensive surveillance. Ethnographic work in these settings shows how the prolonged isolation imposed on these prisoners occurs in the context of classification and placement within the prison. The category of psychopathy is used to designate inmates regarded as dangerous and to interpret their use of language through a merging of clinical and moral discourses. Diagnosis, conditions of confinement and public images of criminality are shown to mutually reinforce a logic of exclusion in which isolation comes to seem `inevitable' for some prisoners

Context (archaeology · Control (management · Criminology · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Isolation (microbiology · Personality · Prison · Psychopathy · Social science · Sociology · Solitary confinement · Anthropology · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence