Locked into marginalization: actuarial control and prison in Asperones
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This paper draws from a research project on resilience and networked socioeducational work in the marginalized neighbourhood of Los Asperones (Malaga, Spain). Through a sociodemographic study, 53 interviews and 7 focus groups, we intend to inquire the lines of force of the social control policies that, following a widest logic of neutralization, underpin the marginalization of the neighbourhood. Those control policies are framed within the (neo)liberal governmentality examined by Michel Foucault and, more concretely, within the actuarial logic as applied to the social control of high-risk categories of populations. Finally, we address the issue of imprisonment, whose record figures in Spain (with a significant historical gender bias but without any correlation with crime rates) especially hits Los Asperones.