SOC219H5 Chapter : Embodied Surveillance and the Gendering of Punishment.docx
Document Summary
Rather than signaling the decline of gendered organization, the equality with a vengeance era marks shift in how gender is conceived and elaborated within the criminal justice system : this ethnography explores enactment of get tough politics in state prison for women and considers whether implementation of supposedly gender neutral programs and policies implies that women"s prisons are no longer operating as. **panopticon represented style of surveillance that was continuous, visible and yet unverifiable : given this, the act of social control becomes one of self control, conform to institutional rules because of fear of being watching but also internalize them, the target is the mind, not the body, therapy is a form of social control because it challenges the client perceptions about the self by providing him with a reinterpretation of the behaviors, attitudes, feelings and events occurring through his life.
