Corentin Durand
@corentindurand.cpesr.fr
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Chargé de recherche au CNRS (CLERSE), chercheur associé à l'INED. Political socioloy, crime & punishment, law & society.
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My lastest article is online at Law and Social Inquiry!

I introduce the idea of "adversarial formalism" to describe the intrusion of the form of the law into everyday communications and the reshaping of prison relational economy.

doi.org/10.1017/lsi....

#Criminology #Law&Society #Prison
The Shadow of the Law: Adversarial Formalism in Prisoner-Staff Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2025
Corentin Durand 

Abstract

The law is commonly described as one of the major forces shaping contemporary correctional institutions. However, we still lack a satisfactory understanding of how it has affected power relations behind bars. Drawing from two ethnographies of French correctional facilities, this article finds that changes to the material environment where incarcerated people and correctional staff interact have altered the relational economy of prisons and jails more than legal actions have. To avoid litigation, prison administrators design and use countless graphic artifacts, which has further reshaped the adversarial nature of social relations in prisons and jails. This bureaucratic approach has introduced the form of the law into the most banal of everyday communications between prisoners and authorities, replacing the informal asymmetrical interpersonal negotiations that have traditionally maintained order. Building on Robert Kagan’s typology of modes of policy making and dispute resolution, I re-examine power relations in contemporary French prisons and jails as a tension between formal and informal framings as well as hierarchical and participatory organizations of authority. I call this hybrid relational economy, where the force of the law lies mostly in its formal shadow, adversarial formalism.
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jwlockhart.bsky.social
I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.
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katmabu.bsky.social
Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
Formidable introduction par
@diogocorrea.bsky.social aux 1er cours de Karl Mannheim à Francfort en 1930, "Pouvoir de la sociologie", récemment traduits et présentés par Dominique Linhardt
À quoi sert la sociologie ? url:https://laviedesidees.fr/A-quoi-sert-la-sociologie
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
Étonnant exemple d'américano-centrisme dans cette analyse très peu convaincante des politiques pénales européennes (enfin des "countries that are recognizably European”, whatever that means). Des politiques sans histoire propre, qui s'expliquent avant tout par des policy transfers depuis les US.
How and Why Western Europe Avoided Mass Incarceration
Michael Tonry

Abstract

Western Europe knows not “mass incarceration.” Scholars and professionals worried, as crime rates rose for two decades through the 1990s, that America’s imprisonment boom portended something similar. That was avoided, partly by adoption of American innovations intended to divert people from prosecution or imprisonment. Sometimes policy transfer succeeds. Prosecutorial diversion programs, pioneered in New York and Washington, DC, in the 1960s and later adopted in many places, soon languished. European equivalents were widely adopted or expanded beginning in the 1970s and remain in extensive use. The prison alternatives trajectory is similar. Community service, restitution, victim-offender mediation, and electronic monitoring all were pioneered in the United States but were later deemed insufficiently punitive and ceased being widely used. In Europe, fines are the most commonly imposed prison alternatives, followed by community service and electronic monitoring. The European reaction to rising crime rates—diversion and prison alternatives rather than harsher sentencing and overcrowded prisons—resulted from reluctance to politicize the criminal law, commitments to human rights ideals, and strong social welfare traditions.
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
Encore un très beau numéro de @sociodutravail.bsky.social, avec les articles (primés !) de @cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social sur le travail algorithmique, d'A. Bonanno sur les formes de coopération inspection du travail-patronat, et d'A. Louis-Baraud sur l'activation des chômeuses entre classe et race !
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
Génial !
scoavoux.bsky.social
Fonctionne visiblement avec n'importe quel compte europresse, ce dont disposent la plupart des universités en France
behel.fr
La super exstension Ophirofox (aussi dispo sur Firefox Android !!!)

Ca vous ajoute un lien cliquable super facile directement depuis les articles que vous voulez lire

Ca marche aussi (sauf pour Mediapart/ASI) pour tous vos abonnements bibliothèque/univ avec Europresse

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drtdegenhardt.bsky.social
#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect
Comments in link below
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florentkaddes.bsky.social
À paraître aux @cnrseditions.bsky.social

« Pourquoi voyager ? 17 leçons du XIXe siècle » par Sylvain Venayre :
www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...
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corentindurand.cpesr.fr
Super nouvelle Marine, félicitations et bonne rentrée !
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pjanuel.bsky.social
Les effectifs du service courrier de l'Elysée ont fondu: de 57 agents en 2019 à seulement 27 fin 2024.
En cause : nettement moins de courriers adressés à Emmanuel Macron et la généralisation de Mistral.AI pour préparer les réponses www.lalettre.fr/fr/politique...
Mistral AI balaye les équipes courrier de l'Élysée - LA LETTRE
Conjugué à une baisse importante du volume de lettres reçues par Emmanuel et Brigitte Macron, le recours à une intelligence artificielle générative a entraîné une réduction des effectifs au service
www.lalettre.fr
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jrmdns.bsky.social
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
Personnellement, ça fait longtemps que je me suis lassé de Saussure
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hadas.bsky.social
reference lists should asterisk the sources you actually read
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
This is terrible news. I feel lucky I got to know him. I was amazed that he would attend your seminars on Foucault along with litigating anti-terror policies and helping out protesters pro bono. I hope his generosity, wit and passion will inspire many. Thank you, Tom...
corentindurand.cpesr.fr
He was indeed a generous and inspiring person. Very sorry to hear about his passing.
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florianlouis.bsky.social
Robert J. Sampson - Marked by Time

How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans

À paraître en février aux Harvard UP