Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective

Braatz, Erin; Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine; Hynd, Stacey

doi:10.1177/14624745221109542

Punishment & Society

2022

DOI: 10.1177/14624745221109542

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Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective

Erin Braatz

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

Stacey Hynd

Abstract: It has been over twenty years since the publication of Florence Bernault's edited volume Enfermement, prison et châtiments en Afrique: du 19e siècle à nos jours (1999), a first of its kind collection that helped establish the field of African penal history. 1 Since then, this field has greatly expanded (

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“…But there are also emerging efforts that refer to wider peripheral regions, usually built on collaborative relationships between different authors, and often taking shape as special issues in academic journals and edited collections. For example, there have been several such efforts on penality in Latin America (Bergman and Fondevilla, 2021; Darke and Garces, 2017; Darke et al, 2021; Hathazy and Muller, 2016; Sozzo, 2022), Africa (Alexander and Kynoch, 2011; Braatz et al, 2022; Morelle et al, 2021) and Asia (Ganapathy and Balachandran, 2016; Lee and Karen, 2013).…”

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Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

Dal Santo,

Sozzo

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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This introduction establishes the problem that the special issue addresses: punishment in global peripheries. Then, it justifies why analysing it is a timely task to examine such matters in the broader context of the growing debate on southernizing and decolonizing criminology, and more particularly, in punishment and society studies. Finally, the contents of the various articles comprised by this special issue and some of their common elements are briefly described.

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Colonialism and its aftermaths in prisons in Guyana: An introduction

Anderson

2024

Howard J Crime Justice

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This special issue presents findings from a collaborative project funded by the ESRC's Global Challenges Research Fund, which researched prisons in Guyana. The project was a partnership between academics from the universities of Guyana and Leicester and officers in the Guyana Prison Service. The disciplinary backgrounds of the university researchers spanned history, criminology, public health, anthropology, sociology, and politics and international relations, while officers were drawn from all ranks including welfare and medical staff. Clare Anderson and Mellissa Ifill's previous work, funded by the British Academy and supported by researchers Estherine Adams and Kellie Moss, uncovered the history of colonial-era practices and operations in Guyana's prisons, up to Independence in 1966 Moss et al., 2020). Prison officers immediately saw contemporary resonances and proposed that we might explore the post-colonial impacts of approaches to incarceration in the country now.In the ESRC project, we grew our team and co-developed work that centred on colonial history, the post-Independence period and the present day. Our objective was to construct what we called a 'usable past' that would bring attention to the ongoing aftermaths of colonial-era prison discipline and could thus nurture reform. While we were interested generally in law, infrastructure, penal discipline, rehabilitation and resistance, our attention was drawn especially to the use and experiences of drugs, including alcohol, among prisoners and the people who work with them, and how we might trace historic continuities in contemporary approaches to, and desires and framings around, substance use. This connected to mental ill health, which was one of the key challenges that the Prison Service had signalled to us as we developed our relationship through our historical work, and which is relevant to both prisoners and staff (Anderson, Moss & Adams, This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Penal-welfare systems in a (post)colonial world: The rise and disregard of alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in South Africa

Hunter

2024

Punishment & Society

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Apartheid South Africa developed a notoriously punitive and racist approach to alcohol and drug use. Less reported is that the state gave significant attention to rehabilitation, first for the minority white population and later for black South Africans. This paper asks why in the post-apartheid era—despite a huge influx of cheap heroin, methamphetamines, and other drugs—the government showed a relative disregard for rehabilitation. Addressing this question, the paper points to the configuration of forces driving public rehabilitation in the colonial era included the upliftment of “poor whites,” the need to maintain black workers’ productivity, and the ascendancy of the disease concept of addiction. In the post-1994 period these forces waned as a multiracial middle class came to purchase treatment in private rehabilitation facilities, the disease concept fell into retreat, and mass unemployment helped to position poor black drug users as an “undeserving poor.” The paper contributes to comparative studies on penal-welfare systems and the recent attention to drug histories from the global South.

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Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective

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Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

Colonialism and its aftermaths in prisons in Guyana: An introduction

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