TY - JOUR
T1 - Breaking bodies into pieces
T2 - Time, torture and bio-power
AU - Federman, Cary
AU - Holmes, Dave
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - This article is an attempt to comprehend the bureaucratic phenomenon of the deathwatch, the last 24 hours of a prisoner's life, stressing the theoretical applications scholars can make to the study of docile bodies on death row. Because years of work are necessary to obtain obedience from condemned inmates, health care professionals lend more than an aura of legitimacy to the capital punishment process. As an integral part of the prison and capital punishment, they provide stability, reliability, and the means to achieve the goals of peaceful executions. The ultimate objective of utilizing health care professionals is the sanitization of penal practice and penal language to effect the complete absence of resistance from the condemned.
AB - This article is an attempt to comprehend the bureaucratic phenomenon of the deathwatch, the last 24 hours of a prisoner's life, stressing the theoretical applications scholars can make to the study of docile bodies on death row. Because years of work are necessary to obtain obedience from condemned inmates, health care professionals lend more than an aura of legitimacy to the capital punishment process. As an integral part of the prison and capital punishment, they provide stability, reliability, and the means to achieve the goals of peaceful executions. The ultimate objective of utilizing health care professionals is the sanitization of penal practice and penal language to effect the complete absence of resistance from the condemned.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=28244470270&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10612-005-3187-9
DO - 10.1007/s10612-005-3187-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:28244470270
SN - 1205-8629
VL - 13
SP - 327
EP - 345
JO - Critical Criminology
JF - Critical Criminology
IS - 3
ER -
