disowning our shadow: a psychoanalytic approach to understanding punitive public attitudes

Maruna, Shadd; Matravers, Amanda; King, Anna

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“…These findings need to be replicated elsewhere and future research could also include ‘expressive’ factors thought to impact punitive attitudes (Maruna, Matravers and King ; Tyler and Boeckmann ; Young ). It is pertinent to reiterate the specificity of the sample in this study.…”

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Punish or Reform? Predicting Prison Staff Punitiveness

Kelly

2013

Howard J Crim Justice

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Public views regarding the punishment of offenders have been extensively examined. Yet, the opinions of prison staff have been relatively less well documented, despite the clear implications of such views in officers' use of personal discretion on the job. The aim of the study was to assess the nature and sources of punitive attitudes among prison staff from a maximum-security prison, using surveys. It was found that the most punitive staff members had less experience and minimal contact with prisoners. The least punitive staff were those with many years of service and whose work involved direct engagement in aspects of prisoner care and rehabilitation. The implications of these findings for the recruitment and training of prison staff are discussed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Punish or Reform? Predicting Prison Staff Punitiveness

Kelly

2013

Howard J Crim Justice

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“…It implicates Freud's psychic system of the id, ego, and superego, reconceptualized by subsequent analysts such as Jung (1964) and Klein (1985). However, the phrase, the criminology of the shadow, is a relatively recent expression used to account for punitive public attitudes (Maruna, Matravers, & King, 2004) and, to a lesser extent, the underlying psychoanalytic dimensions of Garland's (2001) thesis on the culture of control and penal policy . However, as appropriated in this article, the phrase is associated more with elucidating the absent but felt contours of criminal justice more generally.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…239-254) and that 11. Maruna et al (2004) aptly summarize a number of the main apprehensions with appropriating the psychoanalytic lens when investigating crime and justice issues. Among others, they note the framework's "failure to meet Popperian standards for falsification; lack of conceptual limits; [and] masculine bias… ."…”

Section: On the Criminology Of The Shadowmentioning

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Crime, Justice, and the Under‐Laborer: On the Criminology of the Shadow and the Search for Disciplinary Identity and Legitimacy

Arrigo¹

2008

Justice Quarterly

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This article proposes an alternative vision for what criminal justice can represent such that its interests in becoming a full-fledged academic discipline are advanced. Linked to philosophical inquiry (the under-laborer), emphasis is placed on explicating how insights derived from ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics underscore the field. Coupled with this more probing excursion is psychoanalytic reflexivity (the criminology of the shadow). The manner in which the philosophical lens informs criminal justice is delineated, and the logic of this shadow criminology is described. As dimensions of an inclusive organizing scheme, their potential for fostering integration in crime and justice studies consistent with the goals of disciplinary identity and legitimacy is explored. The implications of the proposed model-especially for charting a new direction in theory, research, policy, and pedagogy-are also highlighted.Keywords disciplinary identity; legitimacy; philosophy and the under-laborer; psychoanalysis and the criminological shadow; theory of criminal justice Bruce A. Arrigo, is Professor of Crime, Law, and Society within the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He holds additional faculty appointments in the Psychology Department, the Public Policy Program, and the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. Dr. Arrigo's research interests include: (1) law, psychology, and politics; (2) deviance and violence in society; and (3) critical social theory and philosophical criminology. He is a prolific scholar having (co)authored nearly 150 journal articles, chapters in books, and scholarly essays, as well as having (co)authored or (co)edited 25 academic volumes. Selected recent books in theoretical and philosophical criminology include

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“…Many types of context, operating at macro, local and individual levels, have been considered relevant. For example, Maruna et al (2004) have argued that punitive public attitudes towards (suspected) offenders cannot be easily explained by specific experiences of neighbourhood crime, but may be a symptom of free-floated anxieties relating more broadly to macro-and locallevel social change. Kearns and Bannister (2009) have argued that negative attitudes towards young people can be viewed within the context of a growing public and political discourse of intolerance and calls for greater conformity.…”

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Perceptions of antisocial behaviour and negative attitudes towards young people: focus group evidence from adult residents of disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods (Glasgow, UK)

Egan¹,

Neary²,

Keenan³

et al. 2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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This qualitative study explores claims that concern about antisocial behaviour (ASB) may be linked to generally negative attitudes towards young people. The study uses focus groups, sampling adults living in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods (Glasgow, UK). We found some evidence of negative attitudes, in the form of generalised negative stereotyping of young people, but not of a 'general climate of intolerance'. During the focus group discussions, the kinds of comments made about young people ranged from strongly pejorative to sympathetic and empathetic. On the whole, the discussions tended to emphasise the heterogeneity of young people and their behaviours, suggesting that many local young people were not perceived to be perpetrators of ASB. The findings indicate that although adult residents of disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods perceive young people's ASB to be a serious issue, they assume that such behaviours occur in the context of poor environments, poor parenting and poor adult behaviour.

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disowning our shadow: a psychoanalytic approach to understanding punitive public attitudes

Cited by 37 publications

References 31 publications

Punish or Reform? Predicting Prison Staff Punitiveness

Punish or Reform? Predicting Prison Staff Punitiveness

Crime, Justice, and the Under‐Laborer: On the Criminology of the Shadow and the Search for Disciplinary Identity and Legitimacy

Perceptions of antisocial behaviour and negative attitudes towards young people: focus group evidence from adult residents of disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods (Glasgow, UK)

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