Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2205624
P. Bello, T. Matshaba
ABSTRACT Generally, research has shown that offenders’ compliance with correctional rules is motivated mainly by the belief that correction officers are legitimate and should be obeyed. There are also contentions that, in correctional settings with widespread violence and abuse, compliance may not necessarily be driven by the persuasion that correctional officers are legitimate but by feelings of endemic helplessness (a condition that is described as dull compulsion). We are uncertain whether such a claim holds true for the South African correctional setting. From a survey of participants from selected correctional centres in South Africa, this study has examined the factors that predict compliance behaviour among incarcerated offenders in South Africa. Findings indicate (among others) that perceived legitimacy, and not dull compulsion, is a predictor of compliance behaviour in the South African correctional setting. The implications of the findings are explicated.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2207233
Luke Danagher
ABSTRACT The destructive harm caused by corporate psychopaths has become an area of considerable interest to medical professionals, lawyers and philosophers. This paper analyses contemporary research forwarded by these distinct groups in order to determine if, in light of current scientific knowledge on this mental disorder, corporate psychopaths can be held fully responsible for their crimes, and if so, on what basis? In combining the often-disparate conclusions reached by the above groups in relation to the criminalisation of corporate psychopaths, this paper makes a significant contribution to the field by presenting novel methods of holding corporate psychopaths morally culpable for their crimes, as previous research of this kind has focused on clinical psychopaths, who tend to be involved in violent offences.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2203272
Rob White
ABSTRACT This paper examines four conceptions of ‘ecocide’ that relate to descriptions of environmental harm, criminalisation of these harms and inclusion of ecocentric considerations. It then positions advocacy pertaining to ecocide laws in the context of a political economy that both creates and fails to respond to the problems and consequences of ecocide. As part of this, the paper briefly reviews key challenges to the protection of the environment and human rights, as well as the importance of social transformation in furthering social and ecological justice.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2203284
A. Faraguna
The Community Restorative Centre (CRC) is based in New South Wales, with its family worker and telephone information and referral service worker providing support to the families of people in prison in that state. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting suspension of face-to-face visits to incarcerated loved ones caused a high level of distress to families, which was partially alleviated by the introduction of video visits directly to the family's own smart device. This new system of video visiting was not without difficulties but provided a welcome method of staying in contact with a loved one in custody. CRC staff were able to provide ongoing emotional support and accurate, up-to-date information to family members throughout the pandemic and alleviate some of the misinformation and resulting distress experienced by families who were concerned about the physical and emotional wellbeing of their relative in custody.
{"title":"Supporting family video visits during COVID-19: the experiences of the Community Restorative Centre","authors":"A. Faraguna","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2203284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2203284","url":null,"abstract":"The Community Restorative Centre (CRC) is based in New South Wales, with its family worker and telephone information and referral service worker providing support to the families of people in prison in that state. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting suspension of face-to-face visits to incarcerated loved ones caused a high level of distress to families, which was partially alleviated by the introduction of video visits directly to the family's own smart device. This new system of video visiting was not without difficulties but provided a welcome method of staying in contact with a loved one in custody. CRC staff were able to provide ongoing emotional support and accurate, up-to-date information to family members throughout the pandemic and alleviate some of the misinformation and resulting distress experienced by families who were concerned about the physical and emotional wellbeing of their relative in custody.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47296361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2201998
Grace Jennings
{"title":"Review: the impact of Covid-19 on prison conditions and penal policy","authors":"Grace Jennings","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2201998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2201998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49321529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2196099
Kathryn McLachlan
{"title":"Using a trauma-informed practice framework to operationalise the #raisetheage campaign","authors":"Kathryn McLachlan","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2196099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2196099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41329719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2196098
Murray Lee
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Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2022.2152935
G. Mason
ABSTRACT Some weighty claims are made about the capacity of consent education to address the problem of sexual exploitation and violence. The modern notion of consent has its origins in the criminal law where it has a specific and narrow function as the cardinal marker between rape and legal sex. This prompts us to ask: how fit for purpose is the concept of consent outside of the criminal law or, more specifically, how fit for purpose is consent in the context of primary prevention education? This article draws on an empirical study in the Australian state of New South Wales to examine how consent is mobilised and explained in community programs and campaigns that deliver respectful or healthy relationship education. The research shows that consent is a preferred narrative through which many educational initiatives tackle sexual exploitation and promote sexual respect. The article explores some of the limits of the language through which consent is defined and explained in these programs. Ultimately, however, it argues that we should be concerned not just with how consent is defined but, more fundamentally, with the prioritisation of consent as a primary narrative through which to tackle sexual exploitation. Consent is merely the minimum threshold necessary for legal sex. It is not a signifier of ethical or good sex.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2173512
James Alexander
ABSTRACT Drill, a sub-genre of hip-hop that emerged out of Chicago but is now a mainstay of United Kingdom youth street culture, often includes violent lyrics designed to antagonise rivals. This article draws on a longitudinal study with several drill artists to expand the academic understanding of this culture. Within this study, young people’s violent online personas are a response to inhabiting a social space that developed due to a nexus of factors, including social deprivation, a lack of informal guardianship and the rules of the online attention economy. This digital dynamic sees artists competing for viewers’ limited attention by producing exaggerated violent depictions to show cultural competence and embodied street capital as they vie for attention in an antagonistic continuum with other groups. As young people experience social spaces, not governed by the rules of the street, they often realise that their violent online persona’s utility is limited, leading to a rebranding of their digital self. The study concludes that young people’s involvement in online violence is usually a temporary response to the offline social spaces they inhabit. Attempts to address such activities should focus on young people’s offline and online experiences.
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