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Durak, Nilay Kavur

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Nilay Kavur

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    The (in)distinction between remand imprisonment and prison sentence: revisiting pre-trial detention within Turkish youth justice system*
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2021) Department of Sociology; Durak, Nilay Kavur; N/A; Department of Sociology; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 294023
    Around 3.3 million people worldwide are in pretrial detention, and 14 million people are held in such detention per year. Despite the high numbers, remand imprisonment has received little attention in penal theories. Over the past couple of decades, Turkey has constructed high-security remand prisons for young pretrial detainees, indicating a transition towards securitization in the form of remand imprisonment. In these prisons, the element of ?space? and spatial control has taken precedence, while ?labour/discipline? and ?time? have lost significance, reflecting the securitization process. Research conducted in juvenile courts and prisons in 2014?2015 demonstrates how marginalized youth end up in remand prisons that have become social control facilities. Remand imprisonment is interpreted as a crime control and deterrence mechanism by both the prisoners and legal practitioners, and attains roles in crime control that correspond to the residual welfare regime.
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    Turkish penal politics within biopolitics: changes and continuities since the 2000s
    (ESE - Salento University Publishing, 2020) N/A; Durak, Nilay Kavur; Faculty Member; N/A; 294023
    The Turkish criminal justice system has undergone significant reforms since the early 2000s. Probation services and addiction treatment centres have followed the legislative changes. Prisons have changed through centralization and securitization processes and improved in terms of prisoners’ rights with an increase in the availability of prison space. These developments have impacted positively on the legitimacy of the criminal justice system. In the last years, however, prison administrations have been struggling with overcrowding problems alongside the bottlenecks in judicial cases. It is true that Turkish penal politics has been shaped around its will to protect first and foremost the sovereign power of the state. I further argue that the prison regime has transformed in such an efficient way that its governance corresponds both to transformations in the neoliberalizing political economy and the state’s will to consolidate its own sovereign power and security. There is a convergence of increased securitization in crime control with a neoliberal trend and sovereign state’s own security.