Drawing from focus groups and semi-structured interviews, this paper examines decision-making practices and monitoring techniques of Canadian Intensive Supervision Units (ISUs) managing high-risk individuals in the community. We argue that ISU subjects are hyper-individualized through their unique conditions of release, contesting notions that actuarial risk assessments have eclipsed individual understandings of dangerousness in risk, correctional and policing literature. Using Foucault’s disciplinary, pastoral and confessional dispositifs, we highlight how ISU agents make subjects active participants in their own punishment. Moreover, we illustrate how dispositifs not only allow ISU agents to understand, select and govern subjects but also, more problematically, transform subjects into ostensibly dangerous entities reifying and necessitating escalating criminal justice interventions under auspices of protecting the community from potential—not guaranteed—harm.

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“直截了当”：通过强化监督单位理解，选择和治理主题

本文从焦点小组和半结构化访谈的角度出发，考察了管理社区中高风险个人的加拿大密集监督部门（ISU）的决策做法和监控技术。我们认为，ISU受试者因其独特的释放条件而过于个体化，这与精算风险评估已使个人对风险，矫正和警务文献中的危险性的理解相抵触的观点相抗衡。通过使用福柯的纪律，牧养和悔档案，我们重点介绍了ISU特工如何使受试者积极参与他们自己的惩罚。此外，我们说明如何dispositifs 不仅使支助股人员能够了解，选择和管理主体，而且更有问题的是，将主体转变为表面上危险的实体，在保护社区免受潜在（未得到保证）损害的前提下，对刑事司法干预措施进行了改进和加强。