Intelligence and radicalization in French prisons: Sociological analysis bottom-up

Scheer, David; Chantraine, Gilles

Type de document :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1177/09670106211004824

URL permanente :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/55768

Titre :

Intelligence and radicalization in French prisons: Sociological analysis bottom-up

Auteur(s) :

Scheer, David [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019
Chantraine, Gilles [Auteur]

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Titre de la revue :

Security Dialogue

Nom court de la revue :

Security Dialogue

Pagination :

096701062110048

Éditeur :

SAGE Publications

Date de publication :

2021-07-09

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

France
intelligence
prison
radicalization
radicalization assessment unit
security

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

Résumé en anglais : [en]

In the context of the fight against Islamist radicalization in France, prison intelligence rapidly developed from 2015 through the gradual creation of a dedicated service and a specific corps of professionals. This ...
Lire la suite >In the context of the fight against Islamist radicalization in France, prison intelligence rapidly developed from 2015 through the gradual creation of a dedicated service and a specific corps of professionals. This professionalization of prison intelligence work has deeply transformed the prison administration. This article aims to describe and analyse these transformations on the basis of an ethnographic study conducted in radicalization assessment units, which are specific units set up to assess prisoners who have committed or are suspected of committing crimes linked to radical Islam. We shall describe how the guards, probation officers, psychologists and educators participating in assessing the prisoners adapt to the new, encroaching presence of the intelligence mission. We shall analyse the forms of collaboration and competition between this staff and the prison intelligence officers. Lastly, we will examine criticism of the intelligence activity in the radicalization assessment units voiced by various professionals. The interpenetration of the assessment work and the intelligence mission – which are formally distinct missions – produces a specific type of knowledge relating to radicalized prisoners: a reproduction of certain representations or ‘profiles’.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Établissement(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale

Collections :

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Date de dépôt :

2021-09-27T09:05:51Z
2021-09-29T07:56:30Z

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