Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to a prison: as, “carceral endurance,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Belonging to a prison.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
prison
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is also called the carceral state — like a prison.
Totalitarianism 1951
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Marie Gottschalk describes how "women's organizations played a central role" in the dramatic rise of the "carceral" state.
Sex Offender Issues 2009
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Marie Gottschalk describes how "women's organizations played a central role" in the dramatic rise of the "carceral" state.
Sex Offender Issues 2009
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The Texas Control Model, eye-for-an-eye carceral paradigm that pummeled the rehabilitation movement in American prisons has bloody footprints leading all the way back to the plantation.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration Sam Slovick 2011
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The Texas Control Model, eye-for-an-eye carceral paradigm that pummeled the rehabilitation movement in American prisons has bloody footprints leading all the way back to the plantation.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration Sam Slovick 2011
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Thus, the carceral state carries deep implications for who is included and how they are included in the polity.
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Which is to say, in the author's own words: "Neoliberal penality and its earlier iterations have fertilized the carceral sphere."
Price And Punishment James Grant 2010
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Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison explores how the prison is merely the centerpiece of a much larger carceral system, and that our schools, factories, military barracks, churches, etc, are all based on these same architectural and philosophical principles.
Printing: Education 2009
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Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison explores how the prison is merely the centerpiece of a much larger carceral system, and that our schools, factories, military barracks, churches, etc, are all based on these same architectural and philosophical principles.
Education 2009
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In his book Discipline and Punish Foucault discusses the process by which the prison became the ideal form of punishment in western society and the way this relates to the development of a larger "carceral system" - that imprisons us all.
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