Pub Date : 2022-11-20DOI: 10.1177/02645505221138692
N. Carr
In August 2022, the Ministry of Justice announced further changes to the configuration of prison and probation services under the banner of One HMPPS. All probation services have been brought under the ambit of HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPSS) since the renationalisation of services in June 2021, following the row back on Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. This has involved significant upheaval for staff and services, with the added burden of this taking place in the unprecedented context of the pandemic. One may be forgiven for thinking that the dust would be allowed to settle before further reforms are enacted. The official announcement regarding the scope and ambition of One HMPPS referred to changes to the leadership structure of HMPPS, including the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer and a Director General, and the integration of prison and probation leadership at this senior level. However, some are sceptical about whether integration will stop there. The Probation Institute issued a strongly worded statement expressing concerns about the direction of travel amid fears that probation services would be subsumed within a larger prison system (Probation Institute, 2022). Past readers of the journal will find echoes with some of the concerns raised at the time of the establishment of the National Offender Management Service (NOMs) (see e.g. Robinson and Burnett, 2007). One of the issues raised by the Probation Institute is the place of the probation professional within HMPPS and indeed within the wider civil service and the capacity of professionals to articulate their voices and to be heard within these wider structures. The issue of the professional voice of probation has also come to the fore in criticisms of recent changes to the Parole Board rules made by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab following the publication of the government’s Root and Branch Review of the Parole System (MoJ, 2022). These include a new test regarding the transfer of indeterminate prisoners to open prison conditions; the introduction of public parole hearings and changes to recommendations made by HMPPS report writers to the Parole Board. This means that probation staff are no longer allowed to provide recommendations or views on a prisoner’s suitability for release or transfer to open conditions in the reports that they provide to the Parole Board. Editorial The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice
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Pub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.1177/02645505221127184
Rosemary Ricciardelli, Katharina Maier, Mark Norman
Drawing on existing literature on organizational culture in correctional work, in the current article we augment scholarship on community correctional services, specifically parole work, by considering how organizational culture, as narrated by frontline parole officers, impacts parole officers” feelings toward their work and their own health and well-being. Using the insights gained from 150 qualitative interviews with parole officers across Canada, we empirically show how participants described organizational culture as (1) imbued with social networks and hierarchies and (2) inherently reactive. We then provide insight into their perceived relationships with management. Participants explained they largely felt uncomfortable voicing concerns or making suggestions for improvements, in addition to feeling their work did not receive the respect and appreciation it deserved. We draw attention to the implications of perceptions on parole officers' feelings toward their job and sense of self, as well as the potential impact of organizational culture on parole officers' feelings of safety and emotional well-being on the job.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-09DOI: 10.1177/02645505221124766
P. Gavin
Irish prisoners are one of the oldest minority groups and one of the most represented foreign national groups in the prison system, yet little is known about their experiences of imprisonment in England and Wales. This article presents findings from 29 semi-structured interviews with Irish ex-prisoners who were asked to reflect on their time in prison in England and Wales. It utilises Ugelvik and Damsa’s findings on foreign national prisoner experiences in Norway as related to discrimination, long-distance relationships, and deportability as a point of analysis. This paper shows that Irish prisoners suffer the pains of discrimination through racism, bullying, and discrimination from prisoners and prison officers, and there are concerns over mistreatment by prison officers who are ex-military. There are also difficulties associated with family contact. As Irish prisoners are not subject to deportation, except in the most exceptional circumstances, and since there is no language barrier, this paper suggests that Irish prisoners might not seen as “proper” foreign nationals in the prison system. This may result in Irish prisoners being somewhat invisible in the prison system in England and Wales and in some cases having their nationality and national identity denied.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02645505221116460b
Dave Henderson
incorrigible lack of conscience that acts as an inhibitor to developing and maintaining co-citizen dispositions” (p. 126: emphasis in original). She believes that this will only be a small percentage of the convicted population and uses Timothy McVeigh and Anders Brevik as examples of those who can legitimately be denied the right to vote. This is not just because what they have done are crimes (which they obviously are), but “more with the fact that they are the most harmful behaviors against a community” (p. 132). Tripkovic later develops her argument further with an interesting question: if disenfranchisement is a non-penal sanction, could it be used against those who have not broken the criminal law? She concedes that: “I find no reason not to exclude such people from the application of the restriction if both the subjective and objective conditions are satisfied. However, I also trust that this is more of a theoretical than a practical problem: it seems unimaginable that an act could be so serious as to profoundly damage—economically, politically, militarily, or in another way—a community and at the same time not constitute a crime” (p. 132). Unfortunately, even in modern democracies, there are acts that cause overwhelming social and economic harm, individual human suffering and community destruction. The perpetrators remain neither sanctioned, nor their activities criminalised. As disenfranchisement is a widespread practice in the US and Europe, albeit to different degrees, Punishment and Citizenship makes an important contribution to the literature on criminal disenfranchisement. It is both empirically meticulous and theoretically rigorous. It should be read and the thought-provoking arguments considered carefully by anyone interested in punishment and citizenship.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02645505221116457
Andrew Henley
Scholars of criminal justice have long described contact with the penal system as involving different forms of ‘pain’. Paradigmatically, Sykes (1958) outlined the ‘pains of imprisonment’ whereby the incarcerated experience deprivations of liberty, autonomy, security, goods and services, and heterosexual relationships. Subsequently, Crewe (2011) described 21st century imprisonment as involving pains associated with indeterminacy, psychological assessment and selfgovernment in his analysis of the ‘depth’, ‘weight’ and ‘tightness’ of the contemporary prison experience. However, the notion of a ‘painful’ criminal justice experience has not been limited to studies of incarceration. Durnescu (2011, 2019) applied Sykes’ approach to non-custodial supervision, suggesting that amongst other ‘pains of probation’ or ‘re-entry’ were the sense of instability or ‘walking on thin ice’, the uncomfortable aspects of being forced to return to and confront one’s offending, and the stigmatisation effects of the juridical status of the probationer. Hayes (2015) has also considered the various ‘pains of community penalties’, noting how supervision may involve an intrusive and, in some cases, hostile degree of intervention by various agencies in the lives of lawbreakers. In addition to this more established focus amongst academics on imprisonment and community punishment, increasing attention is now being paid to so-called ‘collateral consequences’ of a criminal record. These ‘invisible punishments’ (Travis, 2002) include numerous de jure provisions and de facto practices which involve people with criminal records being treated less favourably than others in a wide range of life domains outside of the sphere of criminal justice and often long after the completion of their sentences. Scholarship in this field has focused predominantly on the United States where many thousands of laws exist restricting rights in areas such as employment, housing, participation in democracy and access to social security (see inter alia Corda, 2018; Jacobs, 2015; Kirk and Wakefield, 2018). However, greater focus is now starting to be placed on discriminatory practices against people with criminal records in Europe (Kurtovic and Rovira, 2017; Larrauri and Rovira, 2018) and to how this might be tackled (Henley, 2019; Larrauri, 2014a). Editorial The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02645505221116460a
C. Behan
to mitigate, undo, or simply manage the harms of these commodified records. She shows how disengagement from the internet is as much a strategy to deal with the harms of digital punishment as overt resistance is. Similarly, for states and corporate actors, Lageson shows the importance of choices made and of passivity in allowing this business model to thrive and harms to persist The focus here may be specifically American, but Digital Punishment shares terrain with other recent works on power, society, and technology – such as Tyler’s (2021) Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality or Zuboff’s (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It is a book which will be useful to anyone researching, teaching, or studying topics such as criminal records, CJS bureaucracy, data-driven justice, and of course stigma. Lageson demonstrates convincingly how the datafication of criminal justice has served to extend punishment via a business model of surveillance, shaming, and stigma.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02645505221116460
Will Paterson-Bassett
In Digital Punishment Sarah Esther Lageson has produced a highly readable and timely analysis of ‘digital punishment’. Over the course of the book, Lageson makes plain the operation and everyday impacts of this emerging domain of punishment, as part of a wider trend of penal entrepreneurialism, with enviable clarity and detail. Drawing from extensive field work and research across the United States, Lageson explains how policing and criminal justice in the United States have facilitated the rise of for-profit businesses that scrape, collate and host criminal record information, most famously the ‘mugshot’. The result is that snapshots of people’s lives are entirely stripped of context and made highly accessible to a wider public such that these formal state records are repurposed as: objects of entertainment, resources for informal background checks, and opportunities for extortion of the vulnerable by corporations. With nearly a third of Americans (p. 28) holding some form of criminal record – including unfounded arrests and charges that are dropped before trial – these harms are not only serious for individuals, but serious in scale, as years old mugshots found via brief internet searches affect the housing, work, and credit someone can access. Book reviews The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice
Sarah Esther Lageson在《数字惩罚》一书中对“数字惩罚”进行了可读性强且及时的分析。在这本书的过程中，Lageson以令人羡慕的清晰和细节，阐明了这一新兴惩罚领域的运作和日常影响，作为刑罚企业家主义更广泛趋势的一部分。根据美国各地广泛的实地工作和研究，Lageson解释了美国的治安和刑事司法是如何促进营利性企业的兴起的，这些企业收集、整理和托管犯罪记录信息，最著名的是“照片”。其结果是，人们生活的快照完全脱离了背景，并被更广泛的公众高度访问，因此这些正式的国家记录被重新用作：娱乐对象、非正式背景调查的资源，以及企业勒索弱势群体的机会。近三分之一的美国人（第28页）有某种形式的犯罪记录，包括毫无根据的逮捕和审判前撤销的指控，这些伤害不仅对个人来说很严重，而且规模也很严重，因为通过简短的互联网搜索发现的几年前的照片会影响到人们可以获得的住房、工作和信贷。书评《社区与刑事司法杂志》
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1177/02645505221118082
Rebecca Jayne Woolford, M. Mccarthy
This study aims to explore the partner link worker (PLW) role in supporting women who have been subjected to or at risk of domestic abuse. Prior research in a probation setting tends to focus solely on the person on probation, failing to examine the experiences of people subjected to crime and support services on offer. The PLW role provides an essential service that has been undervalued and overlooked. The study begins to provide some evidence to counter the broader political rhetoric that people subjected to crime are central to probation practice within the criminal justice system. It draws on the findings from thirteen semi-structured interviews conducted across five Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). The findings suggest that PLWs demonstrate a professional commitment to protecting and safeguarding vulnerable women and addressing domestic abuse. However, PLWs face many challenges and obvious gaps in provisions to provide a fully inclusive and accessible service to meet the individual needs of women and their children. The recently reunified probation service offers an optimum opportunity to review, resource and regenerate the PLW service to protect and safeguard people who have been subjected to or at risk of domestic abuse.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1177/02645505221118084
Lauren Hall, Lyndsey Harris
Despite increasing academic focus on intimate relationships as positive influences on desistance, research has yet to examine the experience and impact of support provision for women who are intimate partners of desisters. This exploratory study draws on six in-depth interviews with partners of desisters to elucidate their experiences of support provision and the impact of desistance. This paper finds that women provide resources to their desisting partners, and that identities and agency can be strained through this provision. The desistance process entails an investment of emotional work and capital from intimate partners which is conceptualised in this paper as Desistance Emotional Work (DEW). Desistance research has not yet acknowledged the support needs of women who invest in their partner’s desistance, and so DEW should be considered further both theoretically and in policy and practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1177/02645505221117537
A. Burrell
This article evaluates the recent history of probation services in England and Wales. The author – currently working as a Practice Teacher Assessor in the Probation Service – considers the politicisation of probation, identified as one outcome of a rhetorical narrative to ‘act tough’ on crime and the impact of the New Public Management model of organisational accountability, its focus on performance and targets, and, arguably, the diminution of the professional role. Following semi-privatisation, and currently reintegration, of probation services, the article puts forward an argument for a realignment of practice, to focus on the supervisory relationship, professional autonomy, and the reflective practitioner.
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