Expressions of Carceral Violence: The Use and Abuse of the Penalized Subject
A special issue of Histories (ISSN 2409-9252). This special issue belongs to the section "Political, Institutional, and Economy History".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 55
Special Issue Editor
Interests: history and philosophy of punishment; offender reentry; collateral sanctions; correctional policy trends
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue addresses the ways in which those who are incarcerated experience various forms of violence. Of particular interest are the less publicized dimensions of violence, such as labor exploitation and medical neglect within the context of punishment, historically or contemporarily. Ideally, contemporary analyses would be approached using what Foucault (1977) refers to as a “history of the present” or rather the “historico-critical” task of locating “traces of the past and their continuing operation today” (Garland, 2014:375). That said, submissions that generally cover the following suggested topics, using any preferred methodology (e.g., small sample, individual case studies, statistical/quantitative analysis, document/archival analysis, narrative analysis), are welcome:
- Violence within penal institutions;
- Theoretical or philosophical perspectives on prison violence;
- Labor policy and practices in adult or juvenile prisons;
- Theoretical perspectives on penal labor;
- Medical malfeasance in adult or juvenile prisons;
- Theoretical perspectives on medical malfeasance in prison institutions.
Dr. Karol Lucken
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- prison labor
- prisoner health
- punishment history
- prison health statistics
- prison medical malfeasance
- prisoner mortality
- penal servitude
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