{"id":313,"date":"2015-10-25T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/?p=313"},"modified":"2015-10-25T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T21:18:43","slug":"agency-and-the-carceral-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/10\/25\/agency-and-the-carceral-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency and the Carceral State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Chapter 4 of\u00a0<em>On the Run<\/em>, Alice Goffman discusses how members of the 6th Street community turn legal troubles into resources. Here, she argues that the people of this community used the carceral state \u00a0of their community to their advantage. While I understand her argument, I don&#8217;t completely agree with the format or function of this chapter.<\/p>\n<p>I think, through this chapter, Goffman sought to outline the agency of individuals in this community\u00a0despite their surroundings. Similar to Marcus Hunter&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Black Citymakers<\/em>, residents of 6th Street used their own tactics and methods to improve their individual lives and their community as a whole, despite of the constant police and legal entanglements of the area. To me, though, the way Goffman wrote this chapter read more like a list of reasons why the state of the community wasn&#8217;t as bad as she outlines in the rest of the book. Over and again, Goffman would frequently cite one or two interviews as her basis for an entire conclusion. Throughout the book, though specifically in this chapter, Goffman was quick to come to conclusive statements about this community based on a single interview of experience. Because of this, I thought that the setup of this chapter seemed to lend itself towards more of an account of varied situations, rather than an overall picture of the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chapter 4 of\u00a0On the Run, Alice Goffman discusses how members of the 6th Street community turn legal troubles into resources. Here, she argues that the people of this community used the carceral state \u00a0of their community to their advantage. While I understand her argument, I don&#8217;t completely agree with the format or function of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/10\/25\/agency-and-the-carceral-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agency and the Carceral State<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policing-the-carceral-state-week-7"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}