Posted: September 6th, 2015

Punishment and Criminal Justice

We tend to feel differently about our actions when we know we are being observed. This conditioning of action by observation is the essence of social (as opposed to coercive) control. Considering Foucault’s concept of the ‘carceral network’ and Cohen’s discussion of ‘netwidening’, is the use of intensive and pervasive surveillance an effective way of achieving justice? If so, for whom?

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