Modes of prison administration, control and governmentality in Latin America

Adoption, Adaptation and Hybridity

Bibliographic Data

ID5680974
AuthorsFiona Macaulay (University of Bradford, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume13
Issue4
Pages361-392
Publication date2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict Security and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1467-8802 • E-ISSN: 1478-1174
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14678802.2013.834114
OpenAlexW2083320323
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited36

This article analyses processes of international policy transfer and diffusion in an understudied aspect of security sector reform: prisons. It looks at how Latin American countries, especially Brazil, have responded to a growing security crisis of capacity, effectiveness and violence within their prison systems by adopting, adapting and even resisting reform models available globally in three reform areas: prison administration (state-run versus forms of privatisation and public-private partnerships); control (the technologies of super-max versus the intelligence- and relationship-centred approach of dynamic security); and governmentality (the ethos underpinning state and societal treatment of offenders as subjects and objects of penal discipline). It also examines how Brazil has produced its own home-grown models of penal governance—prisons run by civil society in partnership with the state—which challenge some of the current dominant tropes in prison reform. The globalisation of neoliberal modes of governance may often aim at institutional monocropping, and isomorphism certainly occurs, yet examination of actual practices confirms that Brazil, and the region, have adopted a hybridised diversity of penal reforms

Civil society · Corporate governance · Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economics · Globalization · Governmentality · Hybridity · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prison · Prison reform · Security Sector Reform · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration

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