Placing under electronic surveillance: virtual punishment space and visibility
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ID: <
10.4000/champpenal.8791>
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10.4000/champpenal.8791>
Our hypothesis is the fallowing one: punishment de-territorialization movement is led by a dual mechanism. On one hand, some of the most concrete aspects of the penitentiary institution are disappearing (prisons architecture, supervisers’ and convicts’ physical presence. On the other hand, we can note the appearance of a new visibility of the convict’s private area, allowed by digital tracking. Keeping "captive bodies" is no longer needed given that the remote rationalization and normalization of the sentence geographic area are now possible.