Rights statement: This is the authors pre-print version of the following article: Follis, L. (2016) Democratic Punishment and the Archive of Violence: Punishment, Publicity and Corporal Excess in Antebellum New York. J Hist Sociol, 29: 207–231. doi: 10.1111/johs.12082 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/johs.12082/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Democratic punishment and the archive of violence
T2 - punishment, publicity and corporal excess in antebellum New York
AU - Follis, Luca
N1 - This is the authors pre-print version of the following article: Follis, L. (2016) Democratic Punishment and the Archive of Violence: Punishment, Publicity and Corporal Excess in Antebellum New York. J Hist Sociol, 29: 207–231. doi: 10.1111/johs.12082 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/johs.12082/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Nineteenth century American prisons were paradoxical institutions. Porous and impermeable, transparent and opaque, open to public view and occluded from sight; prisons clearly functioned as containers for raw coercion even as they were paraded as paragons of democratic transparency. How did New York State navigate between these countervailing positions and how did officials explicate the difference between them? In this essay I focus on the representation of institutional violence as a problematic of governance, I consider its impact on the development and transformation of public authority and track the role of state actors in navigating the scandals, crises and opportunities it engendered.
AB - Nineteenth century American prisons were paradoxical institutions. Porous and impermeable, transparent and opaque, open to public view and occluded from sight; prisons clearly functioned as containers for raw coercion even as they were paraded as paragons of democratic transparency. How did New York State navigate between these countervailing positions and how did officials explicate the difference between them? In this essay I focus on the representation of institutional violence as a problematic of governance, I consider its impact on the development and transformation of public authority and track the role of state actors in navigating the scandals, crises and opportunities it engendered.
U2 - 10.1111/johs.12082
DO - 10.1111/johs.12082
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 207
EP - 231
JO - Journal of Historical Sociology
JF - Journal of Historical Sociology
SN - 0952-1909
IS - 2
ER -