Jarrod Shook

The Canadian carceral state: What is to be done? Ask prisoners!

Jarrod Shook / January 5, 2019 / 14 min read

To borrow a concept from the critical criminologist Michelle Brown, we live in a culture of punishment, a milieu where public understandings of how punishment impacts the lives of the punished is more often than not consumed through cultural representations that are sensational and stereotypically mediated, making penal spectators out of the public and a spectacle out of the punished.

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