‘A Precarious Place’: Housing and Clients of Specialized Courts

Quirouette, Marianne; Hannah‐Moffat, Kelly; Maurutto, Paula

doi:10.1093/bjc/azv050

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“…Others have shown how discourses merge to create new understandings (Moore, 2007). My findings suggest 'law' generally takes over in terms of coercive power, budget size and symbolic professional clout (see also McNeill et al, 2009;Moore, 2007Moore, , 2011Quirouette et al, 2016). Contributions from community practitioners are not given the same weight as those from other non-judicial professionals in the courts like doctors or psychiatrists.…”

Section: Micro-politics Of Risk Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…As shown elsewhere, frontline practitioners enjoy borrowing from courts power to compel clients to do what is best (e.g. Quirouette et al, 2016). The 'carrot/stick' analogy is used liberally and clients are sometimes arrested for breaching, or even put in jail for a few days or a few weeks 'for their own good' (bail gets revoked temporarily) and to teach them a lesson (e.g.…”

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“…Interviewees stressed the importance of being careful to focus on issues that can be productively managed; because flagging risks that cannot be addressed can set people up for failure. The framing of housing as a dynamic ‘criminogenic’ need for example, can generate opportunities for evaluation, supervision and assessment (see also Quirouette et al, 2016). Ideally, courts acknowledge barriers and mandate the fewest possible number of conditions (even the therapeutic or ‘supportive’).…”

Section: Manoeuvring the Courts: Playing The Game To Change The Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

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Community Practitioners in Criminal Courts: Risk Logics and Multiply-Disadvantaged Individuals

Quirouette

2017

Theoretical Criminology

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The role community practitioners play in lower criminal courts has traditionally been overlooked in the socio-legal literature. In this article, I analyse how they use discretion and contribute to courts' knowledge about and understanding of the problems clients (the accused) face. I focus on how they manoeuvre the courts, offering supports, service or housing; 'vouching' for or documenting progress, good character, compliance and potential; or educating judicial actors about social context, or therapeutic perspectives around mental health, substance use or trauma. I advance understandings of how nonjustice actors interpret and use risk logics, while contributing medical, cultural and sociological knowledge that can improve practices in lower criminal courts, particularly by destabilizing assumptions about criminogenic risk management, poverty and choice.

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Section: Micro-politics Of Risk Interpretationmentioning

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Community Practitioners in Criminal Courts: Risk Logics and Multiply-Disadvantaged Individuals

Quirouette

2017

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“…A significant body of writers (Hannah-Moffat and Maurutto, 2012;Moore and Hirai, 2014;Quirouette et al, 2016) have taken on the above challenge to research the 'boundaries of punishment' represented by specialised problem-solving courts such as bail and drug courts in the USA and Canada. This research explores how such courts combine a hybrid configuration of welfare, treatment, responsibilising and punishment principles to expand the opportunities to regulate and control offenders.…”

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Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality

Gray

Smith

2019

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This article begins by tracing the emergence of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ as a new formula for neoliberal disciplinary power. It maps and interrogates the reconfiguration of a hybrid array of neoliberal rationalities and technologies for the penal governance of young people who offend. It then engages with the challenges posed by critical realists to the governmentality position by questioning how human agency can contest, subvert and resist the dystopian reach of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ in action. While ‘therapeutic surveillance’ is steeped in a disciplinary logic of individualization and responsibilization, we argue that it also opens the space for a more transformative youth penality to be articulated; one which challenges the constraints of structural disadvantage in the pursuit of social justice. The article concludes by arguing that newly emerging youth justice configurations which have appeared in response to dramatic cuts in public spending offer a plausible or transformative challenge to the regulatory logic of neoliberal youth penality.

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“…As a result of criminalization practices, homeless people are more likely to be picked up by police, ticketed, fined, and jailed for failure to pay (Chesnay, Bellot, and Sylvestre 2013), to be given stricter bail conditions, higher risk designations and heavier amounts of monitoring 3 (Canadian Civil Liberties Association 2014; Quirouette, Hannah-Moffat, and Maurutto 2016), and to end up cycling in and out of the correctional system (John Howard Society 2010). In their study of young homeless people’s conflict with law, O’Grady, Gaetz, and Buccieri (2011) interviewed 240 homeless youth about their interactions with police and found that the majority of interactions centred only marginally on criminal activity or offending.…”

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‘Conflict with the Law’: Regulation & Homeless Youth Trajectories toward Stability

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Youth without housing experience more regulation and conflict with criminal justice than their housed counterparts. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with fifty-one young people, we focus on how efforts to move away from homelessness towards long-term housing stability are impacted by conflict with law, a term referring to a broad range of experiences with various authorities in the legal system, social services, shelters, etc. Our paper comes out of a yearlong longitudinal study of the factors and processes affecting the transition away from youth homelessness in Toronto and Halifax. We consider practical barriers generated by conflict with law, but also the role that it can play in shaping the identity processes at the heart of successful transitions. Our findings highlight how conflict with law and regulation-even occurring before and during homelessness-has serious repercussions for young people well after they have left the streets.

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‘A Precarious Place’: Housing and Clients of Specialized Courts

Cited by 22 publications

References 59 publications

Community Practitioners in Criminal Courts: Risk Logics and Multiply-Disadvantaged Individuals

Community Practitioners in Criminal Courts: Risk Logics and Multiply-Disadvantaged Individuals

Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality

‘Conflict with the Law’: Regulation & Homeless Youth Trajectories toward Stability

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