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Although surveillance hit the headlines with revelations by Edward Snowden that the NSA had been tracking phone calls worldwide, surveillance of citizens by their governments actually has been conducted for centuries. Only now, with the advent of modern technologies, it has exponentially evolved so that today you can barely step out your door without being watched or recorded in some way. In addition to the political and security surveillance unveiled by the Snowden revelations, think about corporate surveillance: each swipe of your ID card to enter your office is recorded, not to mention your internet activity.

Federal, state, county, and municipal police forces all have their own codes of conduct, yet the ethics of being a police officer remain perplexing and are often difficult to apply in dynamic situations. The police misconduct statistics are staggering and indicate that excessive use of force comprises almost a quarter of misconduct cases, with sexual harassment, fraud/theft, and false arrest being the next most prevalent factors. The ethical issues and dilemmas in criminal justice also reach deep into the legal professions, the structure and administration of justice in society, and the perso

From constitutive criminology to constitutive penology -- Constitutive penology : critique of modernist philosophies of punishment -- The phenomenology of penal harm : on the criminology of the shadow and the stranger -- Constitutive penology and the pains of imprisonment -- The shadow and stranger in constitutive penology : on (dis)identities and (dis)continuities -- Conclusion: Sustaining the revolution in penology

What does it mean to speak of dignity's de-realization much less to diagnose the experience of it? This article draws inspiration from law, culture and the humanities to address these underexamined questions. I outline the relational problem of dignity's de-realization and rely on a clinical case to illuminate the problem's interpersonal dynamics. I describe the theoretical assumptions that inform my assessment of dignity's co-constitutive de-realization. These assumptions form a metaphysical anthropology sufficient to make socio-cultural diagnosis possible. I revisit the society-of-captives thesis to explain how the interpersonal dynamics of dignity's de-realization in the clinical case are more disturbingly constitutive of society's own calcifying captivity. Given these de-stabilizing conditions of collective and interdependent captivity, I conclude by suggesting how to confront dignity's de-realization. These transgressive speculations emphasize the cultivation of a trans-desistance philosophy. I initiate the article's diagnostic intention with an introduction to the general thesis on the laws of captivity.

This article investigates how the language and logic of transcarceration renders mentally ill offenders captives of confinement. Both the conceptual tools of constitutive theory and the ethnographic experiences of the researcher are used. Background on three psychiatrically disordered participants and the social and organizational forces they helped to fashion are presented. The manner in which both agency and structure coproduced the discourse of transcarceration is described. The article concludes by speculating on the implications of the analysis for future research on the confinement of mentally ill offenders.