Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/14624745221079724
A. Harris
ing development for professional autonomy in this field. Tidmarsh places hope in the reclamation of an occupational, not organisational professionalism and on the relationship between officer and offender, as crucial now as ever. This book is sure to prove useful to researchers, academics and postgraduate students with an interest in probation. It will also be of interest to some working in the sociology of the professions, or concerned with the implications of Coalition-era public sector restructuring. It advances Foucauldian analysis of punishment, not just beyond the prison but applied to a relatively under-researched sector of the criminal justice workforce. Tidmarsh’s nuanced explication of marketisation and professionalism deepens our understanding of how justice policy plays out among people ‘on the ground’. Theoretically sophisticated and rich in empirical detail, Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation is an impressive monograph.
{"title":"Scott-Hayward, Christine S. and Henry F. Fradella, Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System","authors":"A. Harris","doi":"10.1177/14624745221079724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221079724","url":null,"abstract":"ing development for professional autonomy in this field. Tidmarsh places hope in the reclamation of an occupational, not organisational professionalism and on the relationship between officer and offender, as crucial now as ever. This book is sure to prove useful to researchers, academics and postgraduate students with an interest in probation. It will also be of interest to some working in the sociology of the professions, or concerned with the implications of Coalition-era public sector restructuring. It advances Foucauldian analysis of punishment, not just beyond the prison but applied to a relatively under-researched sector of the criminal justice workforce. Tidmarsh’s nuanced explication of marketisation and professionalism deepens our understanding of how justice policy plays out among people ‘on the ground’. Theoretically sophisticated and rich in empirical detail, Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation is an impressive monograph.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42156017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/14624745221087707
Bruna Gisi, Efraín García‐Sánchez, Fernanda Novaes Cruz, Giane Silvestre, Maria Gorete Marques de Jesus
In Brazil, the Custody Hearing is a legal device established in 2015 to safeguard the rights of people arrested in flagrante delicto by the police. In an attempt to prevent the indiscriminate use of preventive detentions in the country, the custody hearings were created for the potential effects that an in-person meeting may have on the flow of the Criminal Justice System. While the recent literature on criminology has produced significant empirical data testing the effects of peoples’ evaluations of procedural justice during court hearings for institutional legitimacy, little is known about what happens during these situations of contact between citizens and judicial actors. Using data from the observation of 138 custody hearings at the largest Criminal Forum in Brazil, we analyzed in this work how interaction procedures and ceremonial resources are employed by judicial actors to exercise authority. By focusing on the quality of decision-making and the interpersonal treatment expressed in procedures, we sought to analyze the effects of the punitive framework for the construction of legitimacy. Our analysis of interactions in custody hearings indicates the existence of a claim to legitimacy which, counter to procedural justice principles, develops through the exclusion of the person subjected to that authority.
{"title":"The exercise of authority during interactions in custody hearings in São Paulo (Brazil): Building legitimacy through exclusion","authors":"Bruna Gisi, Efraín García‐Sánchez, Fernanda Novaes Cruz, Giane Silvestre, Maria Gorete Marques de Jesus","doi":"10.1177/14624745221087707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221087707","url":null,"abstract":"In Brazil, the Custody Hearing is a legal device established in 2015 to safeguard the rights of people arrested in flagrante delicto by the police. In an attempt to prevent the indiscriminate use of preventive detentions in the country, the custody hearings were created for the potential effects that an in-person meeting may have on the flow of the Criminal Justice System. While the recent literature on criminology has produced significant empirical data testing the effects of peoples’ evaluations of procedural justice during court hearings for institutional legitimacy, little is known about what happens during these situations of contact between citizens and judicial actors. Using data from the observation of 138 custody hearings at the largest Criminal Forum in Brazil, we analyzed in this work how interaction procedures and ceremonial resources are employed by judicial actors to exercise authority. By focusing on the quality of decision-making and the interpersonal treatment expressed in procedures, we sought to analyze the effects of the punitive framework for the construction of legitimacy. Our analysis of interactions in custody hearings indicates the existence of a claim to legitimacy which, counter to procedural justice principles, develops through the exclusion of the person subjected to that authority.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47550180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/14624745211063121
Jasmina Arnez
ening the depth of their narrative. They speak to what little research exists on what influences parenting after prison, how parenting might influence the prisoner’s reintegration into the family and community, or the long-term effects of incarceration on parenting and, in particular, the father-child relationship. Though this study did not address every knowledge gap, it lays a strong foundation for future research to build upon – creating knowledge gaps by exerting and demonstrating an admirable grasp of the literature and thus identifying future research needs. Nevertheless, despite the complexity of the topic and the sheer volume of the data collected, Holding On showcases why studying both sides of the coin – the prisoner side and the family side – is essential to truly understand the human experience and impacts of incarceration and reentry.
{"title":"Barry Goldson, Chris Cunneen, Sophie Russell, David Brown, Eileen Baldry, Melanie Schwartz, and Damon Briggs, Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context","authors":"Jasmina Arnez","doi":"10.1177/14624745211063121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211063121","url":null,"abstract":"ening the depth of their narrative. They speak to what little research exists on what influences parenting after prison, how parenting might influence the prisoner’s reintegration into the family and community, or the long-term effects of incarceration on parenting and, in particular, the father-child relationship. Though this study did not address every knowledge gap, it lays a strong foundation for future research to build upon – creating knowledge gaps by exerting and demonstrating an admirable grasp of the literature and thus identifying future research needs. Nevertheless, despite the complexity of the topic and the sheer volume of the data collected, Holding On showcases why studying both sides of the coin – the prisoner side and the family side – is essential to truly understand the human experience and impacts of incarceration and reentry.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65587529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/14624745211057334
R. Ricciardelli, Sara MacNaull
that despite the scale of the Atlanta tragedies, no milk carton campaign emerged, probably in part because few photographs of these persons likely existed at all (p. 70). And while parents of the murdered youths in Atlanta, along with others in the Black community, undertook major actions to bring attention to their individual cases and also the bigger picture of racism, the “Atlanta saga” did not fit into the child safety regime’s racialized narrative of protecting (white) innocence, and quickly faded away (pp. 86–87). The last part of Stranger Danger focuses on some of the key figures in the political maneuvers starting in the 1980s (and continuing through the 2000s) that created some of the laws and policies responsible for mass incarceration. Here we learn, for example, about the figure of Alfred S. Regnery, a Reagan administration zealot for child safety who stoked the moral panic and spearheaded policies with severe consequences for marginalized, non-white juveniles. This section also details post-1980s policy-making, such as ‘three strikes’ and ‘Megan’s Law,’ that capitalized on fear and produced tough-on-crime policies. Stranger Danger is an excellent piece of scholarship, clearly the result of deep and wide archival research. It is essential reading for knowledge about the origins of legal policies that rely on fears over threats to ‘white innocence’ that have had such monumental consequences for mass incarceration. The book also raises fascinating questions about multiple levels of exploitation that drove the child safety regime at its beginnings in the 1980s.
{"title":"Tasseli McKay, Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, & Anupa Bir, Holding On: Family and Fatherhood During Incarceration and Reentry","authors":"R. Ricciardelli, Sara MacNaull","doi":"10.1177/14624745211057334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211057334","url":null,"abstract":"that despite the scale of the Atlanta tragedies, no milk carton campaign emerged, probably in part because few photographs of these persons likely existed at all (p. 70). And while parents of the murdered youths in Atlanta, along with others in the Black community, undertook major actions to bring attention to their individual cases and also the bigger picture of racism, the “Atlanta saga” did not fit into the child safety regime’s racialized narrative of protecting (white) innocence, and quickly faded away (pp. 86–87). The last part of Stranger Danger focuses on some of the key figures in the political maneuvers starting in the 1980s (and continuing through the 2000s) that created some of the laws and policies responsible for mass incarceration. Here we learn, for example, about the figure of Alfred S. Regnery, a Reagan administration zealot for child safety who stoked the moral panic and spearheaded policies with severe consequences for marginalized, non-white juveniles. This section also details post-1980s policy-making, such as ‘three strikes’ and ‘Megan’s Law,’ that capitalized on fear and produced tough-on-crime policies. Stranger Danger is an excellent piece of scholarship, clearly the result of deep and wide archival research. It is essential reading for knowledge about the origins of legal policies that rely on fears over threats to ‘white innocence’ that have had such monumental consequences for mass incarceration. The book also raises fascinating questions about multiple levels of exploitation that drove the child safety regime at its beginnings in the 1980s.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45848424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1177/14624745231175784
R. Miller
17(2): 65–81. The Sentencing Project (2018) “Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance: Regarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System.” The Sentencing Project: Washington, D.C. Tillet S (2014) Strange sampling: Nina Simone and her hip-hop children. American Quarterly 66(1): 119–137. Vasudevan P and Smith S (2020) The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism. EPC: Politics and Space 38(7–8): 1160–1179. Williams JM, Spencer Z and Wilson SK (2021) I am not your felon: Decoding the trauma, resilience, and recovering mothering of formerly incarcerated Black women. Crime & Delinquency 67(8): 1103–1136. Willingham BC (2011) Black women’s prison narratives and the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in US prisons. Critical Survey 23(3): 55–66.
{"title":"Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors","authors":"R. Miller","doi":"10.1177/14624745231175784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745231175784","url":null,"abstract":"17(2): 65–81. The Sentencing Project (2018) “Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance: Regarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System.” The Sentencing Project: Washington, D.C. Tillet S (2014) Strange sampling: Nina Simone and her hip-hop children. American Quarterly 66(1): 119–137. Vasudevan P and Smith S (2020) The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism. EPC: Politics and Space 38(7–8): 1160–1179. Williams JM, Spencer Z and Wilson SK (2021) I am not your felon: Decoding the trauma, resilience, and recovering mothering of formerly incarcerated Black women. Crime & Delinquency 67(8): 1103–1136. Willingham BC (2011) Black women’s prison narratives and the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in US prisons. Critical Survey 23(3): 55–66.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65587712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/14624745211053600
Stephen Bohigian
explaining how contextualization of offenders’ experiences have made some in-roads. However, despite some shifts in the legal, expert and cultural landscapes, other scholars’ have documented the hardening of US attitudes towards violent offenders, which tempers optimism. Nonetheless, Aviram ends with a clear call for real rehabilitation and for reform of parole board composition and practices grounded in empiricism, “to get [us] the hell out of Bardo” (p. 222). Overall, while readers may want more contextualization of parole outside of California, this focus is justifiable given the overall impact of the Manson case and subsequent legal proceedings nationally. Other sources that could compliment this book include the work of Joan Petersilia, Jonathan Simon and Michelle Phelps. Though this work is not rooted in media studies, Aviram analyzes how documentaries and other media depictions are informed by and reinforce common narratives. Readers may also want to watch one of the many widely available documentaries about the Manson family. We especially recommend Manson: The Women, which specifically focuses on the cult narrative and the experiences of women involved in the family. Undergraduate interdisciplinary or gender and crime-focused seminars would find fruitful points of discussion in reading Emma Clines’ “The Girls” along with Yesterday’s Monsters as well as some selections from feminist criminology including Nicole Hahn Rafter and Kelly Hannah-Moffat.
{"title":"Michael S. Sherry, The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War","authors":"Stephen Bohigian","doi":"10.1177/14624745211053600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211053600","url":null,"abstract":"explaining how contextualization of offenders’ experiences have made some in-roads. However, despite some shifts in the legal, expert and cultural landscapes, other scholars’ have documented the hardening of US attitudes towards violent offenders, which tempers optimism. Nonetheless, Aviram ends with a clear call for real rehabilitation and for reform of parole board composition and practices grounded in empiricism, “to get [us] the hell out of Bardo” (p. 222). Overall, while readers may want more contextualization of parole outside of California, this focus is justifiable given the overall impact of the Manson case and subsequent legal proceedings nationally. Other sources that could compliment this book include the work of Joan Petersilia, Jonathan Simon and Michelle Phelps. Though this work is not rooted in media studies, Aviram analyzes how documentaries and other media depictions are informed by and reinforce common narratives. Readers may also want to watch one of the many widely available documentaries about the Manson family. We especially recommend Manson: The Women, which specifically focuses on the cult narrative and the experiences of women involved in the family. Undergraduate interdisciplinary or gender and crime-focused seminars would find fruitful points of discussion in reading Emma Clines’ “The Girls” along with Yesterday’s Monsters as well as some selections from feminist criminology including Nicole Hahn Rafter and Kelly Hannah-Moffat.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47020286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01Epub Date: 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1177/14624745221080696
Mike Vuolo, Lesley E Schneider, Eric G LaPlant
To date, most criminal justice research on COVID-19 has examined the rapid spread within prisons. We shift the focus to reentry via in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals in central Ohio, specifically focusing on how criminal justice contact affected the pandemic experience. In doing so, we use the experience of the pandemic to build upon criminological theories regarding surveillance, including both classic theories on surveillance during incarceration as well as more recent scholarship on community surveillance, carceral citizenship, and institutional avoidance. Three findings emerged. First, participants felt that the total institution of prison "prepared" them for similar experiences such as pandemic-related isolation. Second, shifts in community supervision formatting, such as those forced by the pandemic, lessened the coercive nature of community supervision, expressed by participants as an increase in autonomy. Third, establishment of institutional connections while incarcerated alleviated institutional avoidance resulting from hyper-surveillance, specifically in the domain of healthcare, which is critical when a public health crisis strikes. While the COVID-19 pandemic affected all, this article highlights how theories of surveillance inform unique aspects of the pandemic for formerly incarcerated individuals, while providing pathways forward for reducing the impact of surveillance.
{"title":"Surveillance and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic for formerly incarcerated individuals.","authors":"Mike Vuolo, Lesley E Schneider, Eric G LaPlant","doi":"10.1177/14624745221080696","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14624745221080696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To date, most criminal justice research on COVID-19 has examined the rapid spread within prisons. We shift the focus to reentry via in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals in central Ohio, specifically focusing on how criminal justice contact affected the pandemic experience. In doing so, we use the experience of the pandemic to build upon criminological theories regarding surveillance, including both classic theories on surveillance during incarceration as well as more recent scholarship on community surveillance, carceral citizenship, and institutional avoidance. Three findings emerged. First, participants felt that the total institution of prison \"prepared\" them for similar experiences such as pandemic-related isolation. Second, shifts in community supervision formatting, such as those forced by the pandemic, lessened the coercive nature of community supervision, expressed by participants as an increase in autonomy. Third, establishment of institutional connections while incarcerated alleviated institutional avoidance resulting from hyper-surveillance, specifically in the domain of healthcare, which is critical when a public health crisis strikes. While the COVID-19 pandemic affected all, this article highlights how theories of surveillance inform unique aspects of the pandemic for formerly incarcerated individuals, while providing pathways forward for reducing the impact of surveillance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8851049/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47057451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1177/14624745211034921
M. Fortner
Garland D (2001) The Culture of Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hallsworth S and Lea J (2011) Reconstructing leviathan: Emerging contours of the security state. Theoretical Criminology 15(2): 141–157. Hannah-Moffat K and Lynch K (2012) Theorizing punishment’s boundaries: An introduction. Theoretical Criminology 16(2): 119–121. Ignatieff M (1978) A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750–1850. Macmillan: London. Wacquant L (2009) Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
{"title":"Lisa L Miller, The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics","authors":"M. Fortner","doi":"10.1177/14624745211034921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211034921","url":null,"abstract":"Garland D (2001) The Culture of Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hallsworth S and Lea J (2011) Reconstructing leviathan: Emerging contours of the security state. Theoretical Criminology 15(2): 141–157. Hannah-Moffat K and Lynch K (2012) Theorizing punishment’s boundaries: An introduction. Theoretical Criminology 16(2): 119–121. Ignatieff M (1978) A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750–1850. Macmillan: London. Wacquant L (2009) Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41454135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1177/14624745211035117
Randol Contreras
{"title":"Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy","authors":"Randol Contreras","doi":"10.1177/14624745211035117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211035117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65587563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1177/14624745221135175
Mark Yin
Across the global north, immigration detention has become an increasingly common punishment for ‘illegal’ movement between borders. The punitive nature of Australia's border protection laws is enhanced by a privatised and offshored model of operation, drawing in corporations and neighbouring territories to sustain a policy of indefinite, offshore detention. Reading these arrangements as resulting in actions that might be described as state-corporate crime, this article considers how such punitive regimes are sustained by the institutional actors who operationalise them. It analyses documents tabled before the Australian Senate in 2019 which detail the contractual relationship between the Department of Home Affairs and private security provider Paladin. Communications materials in particular, including emails and meeting minutes, reveal a compromised framework of accountability that failed to apprehend underlying forms of harm in offshore detention, therefore sustaining its capacity to punish. The results also suggest a shared interest between government and Paladin in maintaining this compromised framework, and an absence of voices which might challenge it. Noting that public-private contracts are commonplace in contemporary punitive regimes, the article concludes by interrogating the place for human rights compliance within these regimes.
{"title":"Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis","authors":"Mark Yin","doi":"10.1177/14624745221135175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221135175","url":null,"abstract":"Across the global north, immigration detention has become an increasingly common punishment for ‘illegal’ movement between borders. The punitive nature of Australia's border protection laws is enhanced by a privatised and offshored model of operation, drawing in corporations and neighbouring territories to sustain a policy of indefinite, offshore detention. Reading these arrangements as resulting in actions that might be described as state-corporate crime, this article considers how such punitive regimes are sustained by the institutional actors who operationalise them. It analyses documents tabled before the Australian Senate in 2019 which detail the contractual relationship between the Department of Home Affairs and private security provider Paladin. Communications materials in particular, including emails and meeting minutes, reveal a compromised framework of accountability that failed to apprehend underlying forms of harm in offshore detention, therefore sustaining its capacity to punish. The results also suggest a shared interest between government and Paladin in maintaining this compromised framework, and an absence of voices which might challenge it. Noting that public-private contracts are commonplace in contemporary punitive regimes, the article concludes by interrogating the place for human rights compliance within these regimes.","PeriodicalId":47626,"journal":{"name":"Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48934234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：