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Alterity 101: The Development of a Status: Becoming a Prisoner

The article strives to explain how alterity in society can be seen through the label, spatial environment and culture given to the prisoner.

Alterity 101: Hyper-Incarceration

Here we will try to understand how the Others in our society are represented in the carceral population numbers.

Does Memory Survive Prison?

Prison institutions ought to impose the loss of liberty on the sentenced individual (Council of Europe, 2006). But, losing one’s liberty...

Alterity 101: Social Institutions as a Solution for Separating the Other from Society

How can anyone not want to get rid, and by means without appeal, of someone who is fundamentally a “criminal”, essentially a “danger”,...