Abstract:Piracy off the coast of Somalia has elicited a growing body of interdisciplinary research. Much of this research focuses on identifying the root causes of piracy, analyzing onshore and offshore responses, or evaluating various rule-of-law approaches; no study has yet to examine how Somali piracy has impacted prisons. Drawing upon ethnographic research, this article explores how UNODC counter piracy funding is reshaping the carceral spaces of East Africa. I examine how the need to secure and develop Somali pira… Show more
“…Since the 1960s, Western scholars have been travelling to remote regions with a package of developmental tools to implement in allegedly backwater countries (Dezalay and Garth, 2002; Drake, 2017; Trubek and Galanter, 1974). Those countries’ adoption of the rule of law and compliance with international standards for penal performance have prompted important shifts in their criminal justice systems (Brisson-Boivin and O’Connor, 2013; Gilmer, 2017; Jefferson, 2008; Martin, 2014).…”
Section: Backfiring Modernization: the Criminal Justice Apparatus In mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2002, the ‘Ouagadougou Declaration on Accelerating Prison and Penal Reform in Africa’ (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 2002) states a number of distinct goals, including the reduction of prison population, the reintegration of offenders into society and application of the rule of law to prison administration. In spite of unreliable data and wide variation among countries, these declared goals have not been achieved, as the prison population significantly increased in the last decade and incarceration conditions remained very poor (Gilmer, 2017; Sarkin, 2008). Figure 2. Ten largest prison populations in Latin American and the Caribbean.Source: World Prison Brief (Institute for Criminal Policy Research, 2017).…”
Section: Backfiring Modernization: the Criminal Justice Apparatus In mentioning
Traditional theoretical accounts in the sociology of punishment largely overlook the situation of crime control and mass incarceration outside Western democracies. In this sense, their explanatory power has a limited reach. It is fundamental to engage with different contexts for expanding the scope of this transdisciplinary field, while also rethinking its foundational canons. By thinking through the global-south, the present argument advocates the development of a decentred perspective to punishment and crime control. In a two-pronged approach, the article argues that peripheral countries have attempted to modernize their criminal justice apparatuses, while social control in Western democracies has increasingly adopted postcolonial features. The aim is not only to expand this scholarship by encompassing more diversity, but also to refine existing accounts through insights from other realities.
“…Since the 1960s, Western scholars have been travelling to remote regions with a package of developmental tools to implement in allegedly backwater countries (Dezalay and Garth, 2002; Drake, 2017; Trubek and Galanter, 1974). Those countries’ adoption of the rule of law and compliance with international standards for penal performance have prompted important shifts in their criminal justice systems (Brisson-Boivin and O’Connor, 2013; Gilmer, 2017; Jefferson, 2008; Martin, 2014).…”
Section: Backfiring Modernization: the Criminal Justice Apparatus In mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2002, the ‘Ouagadougou Declaration on Accelerating Prison and Penal Reform in Africa’ (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 2002) states a number of distinct goals, including the reduction of prison population, the reintegration of offenders into society and application of the rule of law to prison administration. In spite of unreliable data and wide variation among countries, these declared goals have not been achieved, as the prison population significantly increased in the last decade and incarceration conditions remained very poor (Gilmer, 2017; Sarkin, 2008). Figure 2. Ten largest prison populations in Latin American and the Caribbean.Source: World Prison Brief (Institute for Criminal Policy Research, 2017).…”
Section: Backfiring Modernization: the Criminal Justice Apparatus In mentioning
Traditional theoretical accounts in the sociology of punishment largely overlook the situation of crime control and mass incarceration outside Western democracies. In this sense, their explanatory power has a limited reach. It is fundamental to engage with different contexts for expanding the scope of this transdisciplinary field, while also rethinking its foundational canons. By thinking through the global-south, the present argument advocates the development of a decentred perspective to punishment and crime control. In a two-pronged approach, the article argues that peripheral countries have attempted to modernize their criminal justice apparatuses, while social control in Western democracies has increasingly adopted postcolonial features. The aim is not only to expand this scholarship by encompassing more diversity, but also to refine existing accounts through insights from other realities.
“…At its core, Fonseca’s essay crystallizes several emerging theoretical strands that we have observed in recent Punishment & Society scholarship about the globalization of punishment and its implications for social, political, and economic conditions (i.e. Gilmer, 2016; Karstedt, 2015; Sozzo, 2016). Each of the first two contributions also foregrounds the effect of the global expansion of penality for racialized and other marginalized people as they are subjected to increasingly brutal treatment.…”
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