Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1-2005
Journal / Book Title
Critical Crimonology
Abstract
This article is an attempt to comprehend the bureaucratic phenomenon of the deathwatch, the last 24 hours of a prisoner’s life, stressing the theoretical applications scholars can make to the study of docile bodies on death row. Because years of work are necessary to obtain obedience from condemned inmates, health care professionals lend more than an aura of legitimacy to the capital punishment process. As an integral part of the prison and capital punishment, they provide stability, reliability, and the means to achieve the goals of peaceful executions. The ultimate objective of utilizing health care professionals is the sanitization of penal practice and penal language to effect the complete absence of resistance from the condemned.
DOI
DOI: 10.1007/s10612-005-3187-9
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
1205-8629
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Federman, Cary H. and Holmes, Dave, "Breaking Bodies Into Pieces: Time, Torture and Bio-Power" (2005). Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 130.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/justice-studies-facpubs/130
Published Citation
Bohm, Robert M. Deathquest: An introduction to the theory and practice of capital punishment in the United States. Taylor & Francis, 2016.
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