%0 Journal Article
%T The ¡®inside¡¯ and ¡®outside¡¯ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland
%A Dominique Moran
%A Anssi Kein£¿nen
%J Fennia : International Journal of Geography
%D 2012
%I Geographical Society of Finland
%X This paper argues that the burgeoning sub-discipline of carceral geography needs to pay particular attention to context when theorising carceral space, and that the specific context of Finland offers a new and valuable perspective. Much of the work within this new area of human geography originates in or pertains to the highly incarcerative, or ¡®hypercarcerative¡¯ contexts of the US, the UK and the Russian Federation, raising questions over the transferability of theorisations of the carceral to other less carcerative, or actively ¡®de-carcerative¡¯ settings. By focussing specifically on one such setting, the low imprisonment context of Finland, this paper discusses Goffman¡¯s ¡®total institution¡¯ thesis with reference to the system of ¡®furloughs¡¯ or home visits for prisoners. In this paper we explore the extent to which this practice destabilises the inside/outside binary of the ¡®total institution¡¯, through the notion of heterotopia.
%K Carceral geography
%K prison
%K furlough
%K ¡®total institution¡¯
%K Finland
%U http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/4895/5741