The seminar « Seminar Code Quantorg – Practices and Uses of Quantification within Organizations » will welcome
Anaïs Henneguelle
ISP – Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (UMR7220), ENS Paris-Saclay
Quantifying recidivists
Penitentiary statistics as mirror of individual crime
Discussant: Christian Mouhanna, CESDIP – Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales / Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions – CNRS
Anaïs Henneguelle will present a paper focusing on how the prison institution counts recidivism and repeat offenders. These statistics condition the common representations on the subject, and subsequently the solutions to this social problem. Thus, the publication of elements primarily derived from individual data leads to apprehend the recidivist as a rational individual, in the image of the nineteenth-century “born offenders”. This image reinforces the “new public management” movement, which is gradually gaining momentum in the judicial field, and which defines risk factors. Such conceptions lead legislators to less ambitious public policies, such as the generalization of alternative sentences, where more assertive social policies could prove be more effective.
Date: 15 mars 2018, 14:00-16:00
Venue: Mines ParisTech, room Saint Jacques, 60 Boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris
Contact: Vincent-Arnaud Chappe