“Escaping from Hell is a Right!”: The Case ...
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Title :
“Escaping from Hell is a Right!”: The Case of France’s “Q.H.S.” (1975–1982)
Author(s) :
SALLE, Grégory [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]

Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Scientific editor(s) :
Max Martin, Tomas
Chantraine, Gilles
Chantraine, Gilles
Book title :
Prison Breaks. Towards a Sociology of Escape
Pages :
191-210
Publisher :
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication place :
Londres
Publication date :
2018
English keyword(s) :
High Security Units
Prison Struggle
French Prison System
Prison Escape
critique
Prison Struggle
French Prison System
Prison Escape
critique
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
English abstract : [en]
How can the upsetting, paradoxical idea that escaping from prison would be a “right” be not only expressed, but garner appreciable public echo? To answer this question, this chapter deals with the controversy surrounding ...
Show more >How can the upsetting, paradoxical idea that escaping from prison would be a “right” be not only expressed, but garner appreciable public echo? To answer this question, this chapter deals with the controversy surrounding high security units, dubbed “QHS” (for Quartiers de haute sécurité), in late 1970s’ France. At that time, these units were widely criticized for being dreadful sites, repeatedly compared to tombs or torture chambers; therefore, they became a focal point of prison struggles against the “state”. Putting these struggles in the context of “1968” and its aftermath, this chapter also focuses on a trial that took place in 1978 as an emblematic “affair”, in the sociological as well as legal sense of the term.Show less >
Show more >How can the upsetting, paradoxical idea that escaping from prison would be a “right” be not only expressed, but garner appreciable public echo? To answer this question, this chapter deals with the controversy surrounding high security units, dubbed “QHS” (for Quartiers de haute sécurité), in late 1970s’ France. At that time, these units were widely criticized for being dreadful sites, repeatedly compared to tombs or torture chambers; therefore, they became a focal point of prison struggles against the “state”. Putting these struggles in the context of “1968” and its aftermath, this chapter also focuses on a trial that took place in 1978 as an emblematic “affair”, in the sociological as well as legal sense of the term.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Non spécifiée
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
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Research team(s) :
Ancrages et dynamiques comparés du politique
Submission date :
2018-10-30T15:26:01Z
2019-11-27T09:43:54Z
2023-12-18T11:43:17Z
2019-11-27T09:43:54Z
2023-12-18T11:43:17Z
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