Prison tied to the body. A feminist analysis of the extension of punishment through the electronic monitoring

Keywords: feminisms, prison, reintegration, control, electronic monitoring, ethnography

Abstract

This article analyses the electronic monitoring as one of the modalities of compliance in semi-freedom for persons deprived of liberty in the Spanish context and how this is experienced by female prisoners. I explore this modality of serving a sentence, within what I call the penitentiary labyrinth of women offenders, and I wonder about the ways in which this context of punishment reproduces gender constructions that are deployed outside the prison institution. Telematic control is the technological tool capable of extending state surveillance to places that have not traditionally been observed, the home, showing how punishment experiences transcend prison.

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Lorena Valenzuela-Vela, Universidad de Granada

Profesora sustituta interina del Departamento de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales

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Published
2025-12-05
How to Cite
Valenzuela-Vela L. . (2025). Prison tied to the body. A feminist analysis of the extension of punishment through the electronic monitoring. Revista de Antropología Social, 34(2), 245-259. https://doi.org/10.5209/raso.105758