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The Ideology Of The Carceral State: Examining The Prison Through Film, Ryan Phillips
The Ideology Of The Carceral State: Examining The Prison Through Film, Ryan Phillips
Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations
Mass incarceration began almost fifty years ago and has proliferated to the point that the United States is the world leader in incarceration. Much work has been done that examines the history and nature of mass incarceration and the carceral state. However, an area that has received far less attention is how people think about prisons. To address this gap, I ground my analysis in the works of Louis Althusser, Slavoj Zizek, and Mark Fisher to formulate “Carceral Realism”, which I argue is the ideology of mass incarceration. To better understand the nature of this ideology, I employ a content …
Punishment As Pedagogy: An Exploration Of The Disciplinary Alternative School, Kaitlyn J. Selman
Punishment As Pedagogy: An Exploration Of The Disciplinary Alternative School, Kaitlyn J. Selman
Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations
As school districts across the US attempt to reduce their reliance on exclusionary punishment—and declining suspension and expulsion rates are heralded as signs of success—understanding the complexities of education and carcerality remains an urgent matter. Through a critical content analysis of a number of sources, including existing historical and ethnographic research, code of conduct handbooks, school websites, news articles, and data reports, this dissertation foregrounds an institution that is framed as an “alternative” to exclusionary punishment, yet is motivated by the same carceral logics that have long-haunted the school’s practice of managing students.
Chapter I introduces relevant literature on disciplinary …