Carceral framing of human rights in Russian prisons
Piacentini, Laura and Katz, Elena (2017) Carceral framing of human rights in Russian prisons. Punishment and Society, 19 (2). pp. 221-239. ISSN 1462-4745 (https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474516665609)
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Abstract
This paper introduces to punishment and society scholarship a new carceral framing of human rights in Russian prisons. Russian imprisonment remains elusive to prisons scholars and ethnographers around the world. Moreover, on the subject of prisoners’ rights specifically, the scholarship is dominated by legal discourse. The empirical and theoretical scholarship that has developed over the last twenty years has argued that Russian imprisonment is exceptional in the study of world penal systems with the research seeking to gain a sense of this exceptionality through looking at the inertial legacies of Gulag penal culture on present day punishment forms. This article attempts to challenge this claim and will argue that specifically in the area of human rights, Russia has followed a not dissimilar carceral formation to Western prisons. Through an interrogation of the cultural, political and historical factors underpinning how rights are framed in Russian prisons the article suggests that human rights are operationalised as a lever for legal and penal control. This is a significant new finding in the study of Russian imprisonment because of the questions that arise around penal resilience, how rights and penal power develop through discourse and how global penal norms converge across jurisdictions.
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Piacentini, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3817-6012 and Katz, Elena;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 57212 Dates: DateEvent1 April 2017Published22 August 2016Published Online25 June 2016AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Aug 2016 15:43 Last modified: 07 Oct 2024 10:35 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/57212