Education Put to the Prison Test

Authors

  • Gilles Chantraine CLERSE (UMR CNRS 8019) Centre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales Université Lille 1
  • Nicolas Sallée IDHE (UMR CNRS 8533) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
 Maison Max Weber 
 Bâtiment T

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7179/PSRI_2013.22.03

Keywords:

Prison, minors, education, discipline, order, responsibilisation.

Abstract

Prisons for Minors (PM) are relatively new in the French prison landscape correctional system. Their appearance reflected a political desire to turn incarceration spaces for youths aged 13 to 18 into properly “educational” spaces, in order to address the lack of socio-educational attention thatminor prisoners were suffering in juvenile units in adult prisons.
Based on a monographic study conducted within two PMs, combining direct observation of everyday prison life and semi-structured interviews with all PMactors, this contribution aims to analyse the form taken by educational practices in these establishments, and examine how they are weaved into the penitentiary order. After providing some context relating to the juvenile justice system in France, we will examine the practices of PJJ tutors (Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse / Youth Judicial Protection Service) in symmetry with those of prison guards.
This symmetrical analysis will lead us to show that, although PMs testify to a decompartmentalisation in relation to the prison institution, they are still marked by the dominance of security rationales over educational rationales. This dominance also testifies to an original connection between these two rationales: in PMs, it is not solely a matter of forcing the bodies of prisoners to submit to the penitentiary order; it is also an effort to enlist cloistered subjectivities through an “educational” work of persuasion concerning the validity of the penitentiary order.

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Author Biographies

Gilles Chantraine , CLERSE (UMR CNRS 8019) Centre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales Université Lille 1

Gilles Chantraine is a sociologist doing research with the CNRS - CLERSÉ ( Centre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques). His publications include Par-delà les murs, expériences et trajectoires individuelles en maison d'arrêt (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2004), a book which received the Le Monde award for academic research and the Gabriel Tarde special award of the French Criminological Association. From 2005 to 2011, he was editorial director of the bilingual international journal Champ pénal/Penal Field. Gilles' work focuses on the contemporary transformation of prisons, a subject that lies at the junction between the sociology of total institutions, the sociology of individual prison experiences and the sociology of professions.

Nicolas Sallée , IDHE (UMR CNRS 8533) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
 Maison Max Weber 
 Bâtiment T

Nicolas Sallée is a sociologist, working as teaching fellow at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, and doing research in the CNRS – IDHE (Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie). In October 2012, he defended a thesis called Des éducateurs placés sous main de justice. Les éducateurs de la Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse entre droit pénal et sciences de l’homme. Following a double socio-historical and monographical point of view, at the junction between a sociology of criminal justice and a sociology of professions, Nicolas Sallée’s thesis focuses on the contemporary transformations of the French juvenile justice system.

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Published

2013-04-25

Issue

No. 22 (2013): Social Education in prisons

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Monographic

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