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Since long ago, prisons have been used to exclude allegedly dangerous people from society. Besides maintaining society out of danger, prisons are believed to serve other purposes, such as the prisoners’ rehabilitation (Foucault, 1979; Goffman, 1963), incapacitation, and deterrence, as well as general prevention, and the delivery of justice (Drake, 2012; Fassin, 2017; Thompson, 2008). More recently, the defense of the society has been privileged from a new role anticipated by the prison institution: social reintegration and the reentry of the prisoner into the society (Thompson, 2008; Travis, 2005). But is this really what we see in practice? Are societies looking into the socialization/rehabilitation of prisoners with the aim of a future reintegration, or are we still sticking to “atoning for their guilt”?
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Guia, M.J., Gomes, S. (2019). Brief Introduction to Prison, State, and Violence Intersections. In: Guia, M., Gomes, S. (eds) Prisons, State and Violence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13077-0_1
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