A groundbreaking study of electronic monitoring and the extension of punishment beyond the prison into everyday life.
James Gacek is assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina.
“The most sophisticated theoretical account of electronic
monitoring yet made available, Portable Prisons is a work of
international significance, and will be of great interest to a wide
range of penological and geographical scholars.” Mike Nellis,
University of Strathclyde
“Gacek’s book is much needed to increase scholarly attention to the
sanction of EM and similar technologies. Carceral and surveillance
technologies are growing at a rapid pace worldwide, motivated by
powerful private interests. Gacek writes to a scholarly audience
who he hopes comes away with an appreciation for defining and
naming the complex social, relational, and geographic dynamics
integral to this type of surveillance experience. He also writes to
a wider public who he hopes pauses to consider the implications of
normalizing the expansion of carceral technologies. Gacek calls us
as citizens to be unsettled by the ways in which we have normalized
this surveillance and allowed it to expand and become routine.”
Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books
“Portable Prisons offers an original and important contribution to
our understanding of EM [electronic monitoring] specifically and to
the geography of incarceration more generally. Gacek implores the
wider public to be unsettled by the normalization of expanding
carceral technologies in our everyday life.” Theoretical
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