Überwachen und Strafen: Neuere Entwicklungen im Justizvollzug Surveiller et punir : nouvelles évolutions dans l'exécution des sanctions pénales


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Mit dem zehnjährigen Jubiläum erreichen die Freiburger Strafvollzugstage das Erwachsenenalter. Die Idee des inzwischen etablierten Strafvollzugskongresses wurde 1998 geboren, und seither diskutieren Vertreter aus Praxis und Forschung jedes zweite Jahr zu aktuellen Fragestellungen des Straf- und Massnahmenvollzugs. Die letzte Ausgabe der Veranstaltung, die im November 2016 stattfand, war der Praxis des Überwachens und der Disziplinierung sowie neueren Entwicklungen des Justizvollzugs in der Schweiz und in Europa gewidmet. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Tagungsbands sind nun strafrechtspolitischen Kontinuitäten, neueren Entwicklungen und ausschlaggebenden Innovationen des Justizvollzugs gewidmet. Dabei werden die Themen Überwachung, Disziplinierung sowie Innovation einander gegenübergestellt. In dieser Perspektive werden drei Bereiche des Sanktionenvollzugs näher beleuchtet, namentlich der Freiheitsentzug, der Übergang in die Freiheit und der Vollzug von gemeindebezogenen Sanktionen. Die Gegenüberstellung dieser drei Bereiche erlaubt eine umfassendere Sicht auf den Vollzug strafrechtlicher Sanktionen im Sinne einer Auslegeordnung wie auch das Sichtbarmachen von transversalen Innovationen. Le 10e anniversaire des Journées pénitentiaires de Fribourg a marqué le passage à la majorité. Nées en 1998, les Journées pénitentiaires portent sur des questions de justice pénale. Le séminaire qui a eu lieu en novembre 2016 était consacré aux pratiques de surveillance, de discipline, ainsi qu'aux nouvelles évolutions dans l'exécution des sanctions pénales en Suisse et en Europe. Les réflexions inclues dans ce livre portent sur les invariants de la politique pénale ainsi que les transformations, voire les innovations principales intervenues ces dernières années. Le présent ouvrage traite quelques questions de base, à savoir, la surveillance, la discipline, ainsi que les évolutions dans l'exécution des sanctions pénales, et apporte un éclairage spécifique par rapport au milieu fermé, aux transitions et préparation à la sortie, ainsi qu'au suivi en milieu ouvert. La finalité de croisement entre ces trois secteurs est d'obtenir une image la plus complète possible de l'état des lieux et du potentiel innovateur qui peuvent y survenir.







Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan


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Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning a 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and experiences of women managers in Japan. Based on empirical case studies, it explores the ways in which professional women in Tokyo creatively mobilize their friendships as a strategic site for mitigating the disappointments in their working lives, and conceptualizing new understandings of independence and equality. It analyses their use of language, time, space and money to negotiate new identities in an increasingly flexible work environment. In examining the challenges and opportunities faced by these corporate workers, this book also extends anthropological debates about the changing meaning and importance of work for women, as well as their relationship with money and separation from the realm of domesticity. As a study of women's lives in and out of the workplace in Japan, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese studies, Japanese culture and society, anthropology, sociology, gender and women's studies.




Invisibility by Design


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In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed by the chance to build personally fulfilling careers, many young women entered Japan's digital economy by performing unpaid labor as photographers, net idols, bloggers, online traders, and cell phone novelists. While some women leveraged digital technology to create successful careers, most did not. In Invisibility by Design Gabriella Lukács traces how these women's unpaid labor became the engine of Japan's digital economy. Drawing on interviews with young women who strove to sculpt careers in the digital economy, Lukács shows how platform owners tapped unpaid labor to create innovative profit-generating practices without employing workers, thereby rendering women's labor invisible. By drawing out the ways in which labor precarity generates a demand for feminized affective labor, Lukács underscores the fallacy of the digital economy as a more democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive mode of production.




Asylum Matters


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This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’ are produced. It argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an institutional habitus through their socialisation on the job, making them ‘carriers’ of routine practices. The different chapters of the book deal with what it means to methodologically study administrative practice: with how asylum proceedings work in Switzerland and with the role different types of knowledge play in overcoming the uncertainties inherent in refugee status and credibility determination. It sheds light on organisational socialisation processes and on the professional norms and values at the heart of administrative work. By doing so, it shows how disbelief becomes normalised in the office. This book speaks to legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, human geographers and political scientists interested in bureaucracy, asylum law, migration studies and socio-legal studies, and to NGOs working in the field of asylum.




Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan


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Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question. The authors analyze women’s values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at work, in their leisure time, as volunteers, and in politics and policy-making. Their research shows that the state and firms have blurred “the public” and “the private” in postwar Japan, constraining individuals’ lives, and reveals the uneven pace of change in women’s representation in politics. Yet, despite these constraints, the increasing diversification in how people live and how they manage their lives demonstrates that some people are crafting a variety of individual solutions to structural problems. Covering a significant breadth of material, the book presents comprehensive findings that use a variety of research methods—public opinion surveys, in-depth interviews, a life history, and participant observation—and, in doing so, look beyond Japan’s perennially low rankings in gender equality indices to demonstrate the diversity underneath, questioning some of the stereotypical assumptions about women in Japan.




Entangled Legalities Beyond the State


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Shows that law it is often better understood as an entangled web rather than as a coherent, orderly system.




The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health


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The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.




Internal Diversity


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This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the 1930s, examining migrants’ potential to act upon hierarchical structures. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and archival work, the book centers on differentiation, combining a diversity study with a focus on locality, with a transnational migration study, analysing strategies of capital creation and anthropological value theory. The analysis of migrants’ agency tackles questions of independence and cooperation in kinship, associations, transnational entrepreneurship and cultural events within the context of the position of Germany and Iran in the global politico-economic landscape. This material will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, migration, urbanism and Iranian studies, as well as Iranian-Germans and those interested in the entanglement of global and local power relations.




Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration


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This innovative Handbook sets out a conceptual and analytical framework for the critical appraisal of migration governance. Global and interdisciplinary in scope, the chapters are organised across six key themes: conceptual debates; categorisations of migration; governance regimes; processes; spaces of migration governance; and mobilisations around it.