When Prisoners’ “Right to Die” Goes Online
A Case-Study of Legal and Penal Sensibilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12122016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua D M Shaw (0000-0003-3930-6501, York University, corresponding author), Daniel Konikoff-Houpt (0000-0002-5515-4985, Institute of Criminology) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-471 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0829-3201 • E-ISSN: 1911-0227 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cls.2022.8 |
| OpenAlex | W4283214364 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Prisoners in Canadian federal penitentiaries can obtain medical assistance in dying (MAiD). This raises questions about the nature and legitimacy of pain and death in incarceration. The authors analyze responses to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation online news article discussing the provision of MAiD to prisoners. The comments exemplify different sensibilities about the state’s lethality with respect to prisoners. These sensibilities—both legal and penal—draw on an array of cultural referents to orient to prisoners’ deaths generally, but also MAiD specifically. The authors explore how certain referents factor in these legal and penal sensibilities and appear to mediate commenters’ judgements. For example, capital punishment factors significantly in conversations about MAiD for prisoners, as well as imaginations of prisoners’ bodies in pain. As a result, there is a spectacularization of prisoners’ carceral death, despite the humane, “civilized” death MAiD provides, which circumscribes how some commenters imagine the procedure and prisoners’ deaths
Capital (architecture · Capital punishment · Corporation · Criminology · Legitimacy · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · State (computer science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
The Common Place of Law
Iterative categorization (IC)
Gatekeepers of toxicity
Embodying Punishment
Punishment and Modern Society
Social Media Sentiment Analysis
Dying with a Smile, Just Knowing that Somebody’s Listened to Me”
Beyond Public Opinion Polls
Capital punishment and American culture
Educating Sensibilities
Deconstruction and Law's Other
The Spatio-Legal Production of Bodies Through the Legal Fiction of Death
Jurisgenerative Tissues
Assisted suicide for prisoners? Stakeholder and prisoner perspectives
The Undercurrents of Penal Culture
Executing Humanity
Theory and Values in Socio‐legal Studies
How the prison is a black box in punishment theory
The Consciousness of Trees
Refugee or Migrant Crisis? Labels, Perceived Agency, and Sentiment Polarity in Online Discussions
Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys
Violence and the Word
Why punishment pleases
Discipline and Punish
Concepts of culture in the sociology of punishment
Studying Legal Consciousness
The Problem of the Body in Modern State Punishment
Quantifying Social Media's Political Space
Doing Without Data
Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |