What the Fight Against Radicalization Does to the Prison Officer Profession
This article, based on an ethnographic research, analyses how the prison officer profession has been transformed by the fight against radicalization and the “radicalization assessment units” (RAU) established in French prisons. It discusses the diversity of the prison officers’ daily activities, gro...
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| Pubblicato in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/champpenal, |
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| Autori principali: | , |
| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Champ pénal/Penal field
2022
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | This article, based on an ethnographic research, analyses how the prison officer profession has been transformed by the fight against radicalization and the “radicalization assessment units” (RAU) established in French prisons. It discusses the diversity of the prison officers’ daily activities, grouped in three main typologies: first: “monitor, separate, isolate”, then “negotiate, dialogue, punish” and lastly “observe, log, trace”. These terms provide a frame for describing, first, the warlike mistrust that governs the work of surveillance and control. We will then explore the forms of dialogue that nevertheless develop between the prisoners and prison officers, occasionally sustained by objectives for unofficial “deradicalization”. Lastly, we describe how the prison officers’ writing activity is structured both by their participation in the prisoner assessment, and their more or less strong enrolment in activities regarding prison intelligence. |
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