Description

Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security
edited by Robert Werth

This special issue highlights the growth of ethnographic examinations of penal governance across multiple disciplines, emphasizing the possibilities and the potential blind spots of ethnography as a methodology for studying penality. By analyzing phenomena as varied as pre-trial incarceration, parole and reentry, female incarceration, immigrant detention, and mental health courts, these articles help us explore commonalities and differences across penal practices, the diffusion of penality throughout society, and its entanglements with other sociocultural, political, and economic forces.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor’s Introduction, by Robert Werth [free pdf download]

Ethnography and the Governance of Il/legality: Some Methodological
and Analytical Reflections, by Robert Werth & Andrea Ballestero

Public, Safety, Risk, by Kaya Naomi Williams

“I Accept that I Have Nobody”: Young Women, Youth Justice and Expectations
of Responsibility during Reentry, by Randy Myers

Back to Nothing: Prisoner Reentry and Neoliberal Neglect,
by Alessandro De Giorgi

Trapped: The Limits of Care in California’s Mental Health Courts,
by Jessica Cooper

Immigration Detention and the Racialized Governance of Illegality in the
United Kingdom, by Sarah Turnbull

Afterword: Why Ethnography? by William Garriott

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