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Carceral Repression

Carceral Repression is a form of state repression in which the apparatus of imprisonment and detention—such as prisons, jails, and detention centers—is systematically deployed to surveil, control, punish, and neutralize politically marginalized or dissident populations.

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30

Authors

24

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

9

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Publications

22

The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Loïc Wacquant · Ethnography · 2002 · 463 citations

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`Papa's House'

Megan Comfort · Ethnography · 2002 · 101 citations

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Ordering Insecurity

Loïc Wacquant · Radical Philosophy Review · 2008 · 96 citations

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Beyond the erotics of Orientalism: Lawfare, torture and the racial–sexual grammars of legitimate suffering

Melanie Richter-Montpetit · Security Dialogue · 2014 · 91 citations · Full text

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Architecture and attachment: Carceral collectivism and the problem of prison reform in Russia and Georgia

Laura Piacentini, Gavin Slade · Theoretical Criminology · 2015 · 86 citations

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Authors

30

  1. LW
    Loïc Wacquant

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    2 publications · 559 citations

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  2. MV
    Myla Vicenti Carpio

    Arizona State University, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  3. JM
    Jody Miller

    University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  4. LP
    Laura Piacentini

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 86 citations

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  5. GS
    Gary S. Fields

    Cornell University, United States

    1 publications · 22 citations

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Institutions

24

  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    509 citations

  2. University of Strathclyde

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    114 citations

  3. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    138 citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    35 citations

  5. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    80 citations

  6. Historical Archives

    Budapest, Hungary

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  7. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    101 citations

  8. Freie Universität Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    86 citations

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Venues

  1. Ethnography

    2 publications · 564 citations

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  2. Signs

    2 publications · 101 citations

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  3. AAG newsletter

    1 publications · 14 citations

    1

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  4. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

    1 publications · 13 citations

    1

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  5. Amerasia Journal

    1 publications · 13 citations

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