ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides theoretical work on the nature of subjectivity in postmodern analysis. It introduces the reader to some of the prominent differences between modernist and postmodernist thought. The book examines Jacques Lacan’s late views of the borromean knots as portraying the consistency of the psychic apparatus, as well as its usefulness in understanding discursive production in law. It examines the struggles of inmates who have taught themselves law, and practice it while confined. The book provides various perspectives in doing postmodern criminology. It explains how iterative diagrams can better explain dynamic, nonlinear phenomena rather than traditional path-analysis diagrams, and how the Mandelbrot Set captures the idea of deterministic equations producing indeterminate results and suggests some possible applications in criminology. The book focuses on the discursive production of meaning constructions in prisons, from policy to justifications.
