"This Video Call May Be Monitored and Recorded"

Screen Bodies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
J Wells
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Video Chat ◽  
Mothers Of Color

This article argues that the implementation of video visitation in correctional facilities is a mechanism of control used to enact punitive measures for regulating mothers who act outside the dominant paradigms of motherhood. Because prisons were designed to surveil and mothers have historically been surveilled by institutions, incarcerated mothers are often overlooked when we discuss the surveillance methods used to keep institutionalized motherhood intact. This article builds on existing scholarship characterizing surveillance technology’s role in criminalizing poor mothers of color, and considers the ways in which surveillance technology is used to normalize these mothers during their incarceration. Applying a Foucauldian framework, this article explores how adapting Video Visitation (VV)—a Skype-like video chat program—enables correctional facilities to extend the role of “watcher” and expand the panoptic gaze, which prompts mother-to-mother surveillance and intensifies self-surveillance. The article concludes by drawing attention to VV’s structure and its ability to expand correctional facilities’ surveillance to the children of incarcerated mothers.

Religious Fanaticism and Religious Extremism As the Factors Promoting Recruitment of Suicide Bombers

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Жезлов ◽  
Nikolay Zhezlov
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Climate ◽  
General System ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Suicide Bombers ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
Executive System

In this article the role and value of radical religious views in the course of recruitment of suicide bombers, and also in the general system of the factors which are negatively influencing social and ethical climate is analyzed. Definitions to such concepts as "religionism" and "religious extremism", the reasons increasing the number of the single terrorist attacks conducted by terrorists suicide bombers are called. The special attention is paid to process of recruitment in the terrorist organizations. Ways of elimination of the called problem are reflected, and also the role of correctional facilities of criminal and executive system in the course of the prevention of the terrorism based on religious ideas is designated. Relevance of the topic covered in article is caused by growth of number of the negative situations connected with manifestation of extremism, religious strife, the interfaith conflicts and increase of activity of the terrorist organizations using religious ideology for promotion and justification of the activity.

Research on the Key Technologies of Low-Altitude Airspace Surveillance and Navigation System

2013 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 436-440
Author(s):  
You Hui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Navigation System ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Extraction Technology ◽  
Processing Data ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
New Type ◽  
Low Altitude ◽  
Set Up

With the low-altitude airspace opening, the role of surveillance technology in ATC system has increasing prominent. This article used application of image extraction technology, algorithm processing, data fusion and transmission to improve the reliability of surveillance and set up a new structure of network. Finally, we used computers to achieve a new type of low-altitude surveillance system.

Effects of Childhood Polyvictimization on Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities: The Mediating Role of Trauma Symptomatology

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie R. Yoder ◽  
Ashleigh I. Hodge ◽  
Donna Ruch ◽  
Rebecca Dillard
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Incarcerated Youth ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Residential Placement ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Juvenile Correctional Facilities ◽  
Trauma Symptomatology

Polyvictimization refers to multiple forms of victimization experienced by youths. The extent to which aggregated or cumulative early life victimization increases risk of victimization within juvenile correctional facilities is unclear. Furthermore, pathways from early polyvictimization to facility victimization may be partly explained by trauma symptomatology. Drawing upon the extant polyvictimization literature, this study explores both composite and cumulative effects of childhood victimization on later victimization within correctional facilities and the mediating role of trauma symptomatology among a nationally representative sample of incarcerated youth. Data were drawn from the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement. Incarcerated youths ( N = 7,073) were surveyed on constructs including early victimization, trauma symptomatology, and experiences of victimization within correctional facilities. Using appropriate weights in analyses, structural equation models revealed the relationship between amassed early polyvictimization and composite facility victimization was partially explained by trauma symptoms; facility victimization also linked to trauma symptoms. Additional models revealed that as youths report more victimization experiences, there was a successive increased likelihood for trauma symptoms, facility robbery, and facility physical victimization. The relationships between cumulative early victimization and facility robbery, physical, and sexual victimization were partially or fully mediated by trauma symptoms. Research and practice implications are discussed.

“‘It will crush you like a bug’: Maternal incarceration, secondary prisonization, and children’s visitation”

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittnie L Aiello ◽  
Jill A McCorkel
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Legal Sanction ◽  
Children Of Prisoners ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Child Visitation ◽  
Regulation Of Emotion

Over the last three decades, the number of children experiencing the incarceration of one or both parents has grown dramatically. Although the children of prisoners are not under legal sanction, they are nonetheless indirectly subject to the coercive apparatus of the state by virtue of their parent’s status and they are directly subject to this apparatus during their visits to correctional facilities. In this ethnographic study of a mother–child visitation program in jail, we examine secondary prisonization among children of incarcerated mothers. Previous research on secondary prisonization has focused primarily on adults, finding that contact with the prison system alters their conception self, body, moral statuses, emotions, and relationships. Our ethnographic data demonstrate that the implications of this for children are considerable. Here, we analyze secondary prisonization as it impacts children across two domains: discipline of the body and regulation of emotion.

An Exploratory Study on the Role of Burnout and Devaluation among Staff in Psychiatric Correctional Facilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110102
Author(s):  
Lindamarie Olson ◽  
Robin Gearing ◽  
Berenice Pérez Ramírez ◽  
Luis R. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Correctional Staff ◽  
Low Levels

Correctional staff work in demanding job environments that can lead to increased burnout. Research aims were to determine the prevalence of burnout and devaluation of consumers (i.e., individuals in their care) and their families among correctional staff, examine associations between burnout and devaluation of consumers and their families, and determine significant predictors of burnout. This exploratory study investigated 30 correctional staff in a specialized psychiatric correctional facility for individuals with mental illness in Mexico City. Correctional staff experienced low to moderate burnout, reported high levels of devaluation of consumers (DCS), and low levels of devaluation of consumers’ families (DCFS). The implications of burnout on DCS and DCFS warrant large scale research and should compare burnout and devaluation in specialized psychiatric correctional facilities versus general correctional facilities.

scholarly journals A BALANCING ACT FOR THE PROSECUTOR: Restorative justice, criminal justice and access to justice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hema Hargovan
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
Trial Phase

An international appraisal of prosecutors’ perceptions depicts a uniform tendency for prosecutors to see their role as one of ‘presenting evidence in court to get convictions, rather than promoting problem solving’. Many young law graduates dream of a courtroom battle similar to those in popular television series, which tend to glorify the role of the prosecutor in a dramatic depiction of good versus bad. However, reality soon sets in regarding the numerous challenges faced in the criminal justice system. Court backlogs, high case loads, delays in processing huge numbers of remand offenders, and overcrowded correctional facilities plague the system. It is probably within this context that restorative approaches to justice in the pre-trial phase became attractive for the South African prosecutor. This article examines prosecutorial engagement with restorative approaches to justice, and more specifically the KwaZulu-Natal Justice and Restoration Programme.

scholarly journals Public Video Surveillance by the State: Policy, Privacy Legislation, and the Charter

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Lai
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Public Surveillance ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Privacy Legislation ◽  
The Law

This article explores the growing phenomenon of public video surveillance and how the law should protect an individual's right to privacy while providing for effective law enforcement. The author considers the positive and negative effects of surveillance and recent technological advancements that currently challenge courts, legislatures, and police forces. Canadian case studies from Kelowna and Edmonton are utilized to examine the role of federal and provincial privacy legislation, while the Supreme Court of Canada's evolving interpretation of s. 8 of the Charter is canvassed through an examination of jurisprudence involving public surveillance technology. Ultimately, the author concludes that public video surveillance is necessary but the law must control its use. Video surveillance via automated collection would resolve the "effectiveness versus privacy" policy debate by minimizing the potential for abuse.

scholarly journals Improving the Food Environment in Washington State–Run Correctional Facilities: The Healthy Commissary Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (8) ◽  
pp. 1439-1442
Author(s):  
Alyssa Auvinen ◽  
Jessica Marcinkevage ◽  
Chris Mornick ◽  
Susmitha Nambuthiri ◽  
Mary Daniel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Nutrition Standards

Improvements to correctional facilities’ food environment can provide healthier food and beverage options for incarcerated individuals, a population disproportionately affected by chronic disease. This article describes efforts to increase healthy options in the commissary program at Washington State correctional facilities from 2017 to 2019, and the role of a multidisciplinary collaboration between the state’s Department of Corrections, Department of Health, and Statewide Family Council. Through the development, implementation, and promotion of nutrition standards, the nutritional quality of foods and beverages in the commissary program improved.

scholarly journals SELF-RATED HEALTH AS A PREDICTOR OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN OLDER ADULT INMATES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S166-S166
Author(s):  
Carlyn E Vogel ◽  
Lisa C Barry
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Older Inmates

Abstract Inmates age ≥50 years (older inmates) are a rapidly growing population within the U.S. correctional system with the highest suicide rate among adult prisoners. Although depression and anxiety are strong precursors of subsequent suicide, little is known regarding factors associated with these outcomes in older inmates. To inform suicide prevention efforts in this high-risk population, we evaluated the role of older inmates’ self-rated health (SRH) in relation to depression and anxiety. We utilized data from the ongoing Aging Inmates Suicidal Ideation and Depression study (Aging INSIDE). Participants (N=175) included men age ≥50 (M=56.5, SD=6.3, range=50-79 years) from eight correctional facilities in Connecticut who completed face-to-face interviews. The outcomes, depression and anxiety, were assessed using the PHQ-9 (range 0-27) and GAD-7 (range 0-21); higher scores on each scale indicated worsening severity. SRH, operationalized as a pseudo-continuous variable (1=excellent; 5=Poor), was correlated with depression (r=0.379; p <.001) and anxiety (r=0.260; p =.001) in unadjusted analyses. Two linear regression models were conducted to determine if SRH was associated with depression and/or anxiety after controlling for age, race (white versus non-white), years of education, visitors (yes versus no), and number of chronic conditions. Increasingly worse SRH was significantly associated with more depressive symptoms (β=1.92, SE=.43, p <.001) and higher anxiety scores (β=1.41, SE=.41, p=.001). SRH explained 10.0% and 6.2% of the variance in depression and anxiety scores, respectively. SRH may be useful for identifying older inmates who are more likely to have depression or anxiety, and thus may be at higher risk for suicide.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document