Rethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes

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dc.contributor.authorAedo, Angel
dc.contributor.authorFaba, Paulina
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:00:29Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:00:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe pervasiveness of preventive rationality, which is especially evident in populations caught in the prison-neighbourhood circuit, constitutes a challenging field for anthropological theory because it allows us to rethink the problem of hegemony in the context of the crises of capitalism. Drawing on research conducted in Chile amongst practitioners of crime prevention programmes and prisoners' families targeted by such initiatives, in this paper, we explore crime prevention as a political concept whose effects are inseparable from the maintenance of class and gender disparities. In conceptualising how petty crime prevention has become a predominant technology of classifying, policing and managing low-income populations, we take Foucault's notion of illegalism - as distinct from illegality - and extend it to dispossessed groups affected by dramatic levels of economic inequality and structural violence. We discuss preventive rationality in relation to the contradictions engendered by an authoritarian form of capitalism protected by constitutional constraints inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship. By connecting the conceptualisation of petty crime prevention to the ongoing contradictions of the society in which we live, we seek to sharpen attention to the ways in which the neoliberal hegemony attempts to contain its decline.
dc.description.funderAgencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo ANID, Chile
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14634996211069757
dc.identifier.eissn1741-2641
dc.identifier.issn1463-4996
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/14634996211069757
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93725
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000752311800001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final361
dc.pagina.inicio338
dc.revistaAnthropological theory
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectCrime prevention
dc.subjectillegalisms
dc.subjectsecurity
dc.subjectneoliberal hegemony
dc.subjectcrisis
dc.subjectcontainment
dc.subjectdangerous classes
dc.subjectfamilies of prisoners
dc.subjectgender and class inequalities
dc.subjectChile
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.ods16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.subject.odspa16 Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
dc.titleRethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen22
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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