In this engagement with Professor Bruce Arrigo’s psychological jurisprudence model, I explore his critique of captivity and risk management. I am particularly interested in his claims that incarceration culminates in society’s own captivity, that the most destructive aspect of captivity is its foreclosing of human difference and potentiality, and that a praxis that is both clinical and mindful might point a way out. By way of a case anecdote, I interrogate several of the key terms in Arrigo’s formulation—citizenship, reform, revolution, and praxis—in an effort to further conjugate from the ground up such an innovative and important set of possibilities.
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