Carceral Impoverishment
Class Inequality in the French Penitentiary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne-Marie Marchetti (University of Picardie, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 416-434 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138102003004014 |
| OpenAlex | W2019817703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article draws on a year-long field study of and indepth interviews with inmates in seven French prisons conducted in 1993-4 to map out their penal trajectory and to show how the prisons operate not only to temporarily hide but also to produce and to consolidate situations of poverty. From initial entry, orientation, and internal transfers to furloughs and liberation, every stage in the carceral cursus contributes to the progressive and cumulative impoverishment of those inmates who are the most deprived of economic and cultural capital. Far from being a homogenizing force, imprisonment deepens inequality along a class gradient by accentuating pre-existing deprivations in the economic, material, physical, relational, cultural and affective realms. Not only do the poor go to prison more readily, but once behind walls they are also subjected to much more rigorous and deleterious conditions of detention and they come out of penal confinement with greater difficulty. It is argued that carceral impoverishment is the result of the unquestioned primacy granted to the imperative of security in the organization and routine functioning of the prison
Capital (architecture · Criminology · Cultural capital · Geography · Imprisonment · Inequality · Political science · Poverty · Prison · Social science · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health
La especificidad de la metodología de la investigación social en el trabajo con personas en "libertad condicional". El caso de las mujeres "en transición
Criminal nomadism
Disciplinary Engagements with Prisons, Prisoners and the Penal System
A aberração carcerária à moda francesa
Closed circuits
The Texture of Hardship
The Ethnography of Prisons and Penal Confinement
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |