Transcarceration: Notes on a psychoanalytically-informed theory of social practice in the criminal justice and mental health systems |
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Authors: | Bruce a Arrigo |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy, California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno, CA 93727, USA |
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Abstract: | The application of Lacanian psychoanalytic semiotics to the intersecting categories of criminal justice and mental health
is relatively novel. In this paper the phenomenon of transcarceration or the repeated channeling of disordered defendants
(subjects) through institutional regimes of discipline and coercion is outlined. Attention is directed at the intra-psychic
and intersubjective mechanisms responsible for the structuring of discourse. Lacan's schematization on the constitution of
master narratives through the Discourse of the Master is also delineated. The author concludes by demonstrating how transcarceration
is fundamentally about language and privileged speech patterns which agents of both systems as well as subjects themselves
perpetuate.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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