Denuding Surveillance at the Carceral Boundary

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4440239
AutoresChris Garces (autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume113
Fascículo3
Páginas447-473
Data de publicação2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-2692146
OpenAlexW2314916058
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas39

To keep drugs and weapons out and to generate security clearance, Ecuador's prison administrations now demand the visual, digital, or physical strip searching of all adult citizens who establish contact with incarcerated subjects. The prison system may normalize such denuding and voyeuristic surveillance, but prison officers deny any sexual content in these procedures while satisfying their professional gatekeeping tasks-the maintenance of carceral boundaries effectively blurring any formal distinctions between voyeuristic desire and bureaucratic duty. The state's securitization of the prison in an age of inmate-threat neutralization and administrative segregation expands the carceral boundary of denuding surveillance to include non-incarcerated subjects. Rampant "security sexualization" and its disavowal, I suggest, form a spectral aspect of prison governance currently on the rise across Ecuador and in a cross-hemispheric context

Gatekeeping · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Sex work and related issues