Making Sense of Penal Change

Daems, Tom

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199559787.001.0001

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“…Wacquant (2006Wacquant ( , 2009b recognized that countries in the European Union have carceral inflation that most often ensnares members of the Black working class. Daems (2008), however, identified a problematically unresolved tension in Wacquant's analysis. On one hand, Wacquant claimed that the USA is unexceptional, an exporter of punitive penal policies that also lead to the incarceration of 'Europe's Blacks' (minority ethnic groups and recent migrants).…”

Section: On the Place And Possibilities Of Ethnographic Studies Of Immentioning

confidence: 99%

Digesting men? Ethnicity, gender and food: Perspectives from a ‘prison ethnography’

Earle

Phillips

2012

Theoretical Criminology

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Drawing from an ethnographic study of men's social relations in an English prison, this article explores the potential of attending closely to men's practice for the light it may shed on the boundaries of punishment. Interviews with prisoners and fieldwork experiences reveal something of the way prison acts on an ethnically diverse group of men. Focusing on the way men use cooking facilities on the prison's wings, the article explores the way men make food for themselves and each other and thereby occupy prison space with unconventional (and conventional) gender practice. Using intersectional perspectives the article shows how practices of racialization, racism, conviviality and coercion are woven into the fabric of prison life. These quotidian experiences are juxtaposed against the question of how prisons and prisoner populations represent a spectrum of violence in which gender dynamics remain under-examined. By providing glimpses of men's lives in an English prison to reveal aspects of the ways masculinities and ethnicities interact to shape a penal regime the authors offer some resources for, and perspective on, the theorization of punishment's boundaries.

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Section: On the Place And Possibilities Of Ethnographic Studies Of Immentioning

confidence: 99%

Digesting men? Ethnicity, gender and food: Perspectives from a ‘prison ethnography’

Earle

Phillips

2012

Theoretical Criminology

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“…Contemporary debates over public criminology are set against the backdrop of an increasing realisation that as criminology has flourished in the academy, its influences on policy development as well as on public knowledge about realities of crime and justice has floundered (Garland and Sparks, 2000;Tonry, 2010;Uggen and Inderbitzin, 2010;Loader and Sparks, 2011). In other words, as Daems, (2008;p.241) notes, 'in times as ours when 'crime talk' flourishes, its voice seems -somehow, somewhere -to get lost'. Loader and Sparks (2011) refer to this as criminology's 'successful failure'.…”

Section: The Rise Of Public Criminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Public scholarship and the evidence movement: Understanding and learning from Belgian drug policy development

Tieberghien¹,

Monaghan

2017

European Journal of Criminology

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Debates about public scholarship have gathered momentum in several fields including sociology and criminology. There is much debate over the nature of public scholarship and the forms it can take. In criminology one of the most influential analyses of public scholarship has been developed by Loader and Sparks. For these two thinkers part of the task of scholarship is to contribute to better 'politics'. In their hands, public criminology is close to another long-running analytical trend; research utilisation. The two literatures have for the most part remained separate. This paper puts Loader and Sparks' framework of public scholarship to the empirical test to see if and how it contributes to understanding the role and nature of evidence use in highly sensitive policy areas. We do this through an analysis of recent changes in Belgian drugs policy. We conclude that the framework of Loader and Sparks, although useful in illuminating how publicly engaged scholars can influence and mobilise more open and better informed public and political debate, is hamstrung, by its concentration on the action of individuals in isolation from the complex power structures that underpin the policy process. Synthesising lessons drawn from the research utilisation literature with the work of public criminology provides a potential way forward in understand the role of evidence in policy and also producing 'better' politics in this context.

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“…The lack of wide-ranging and sound criteria for the assessment of punitiveness nevertheless has implications for the wider discipline of criminology. A 'persuasive public criminology' on this critical issue for our times will only maintain its legitimacy if informed by 'responsible speech' and 'analytical pluralism' (Daems 2008). The use of punitiveness as an umbrella term for policies and practices which criminologists simply consider undesirable while ignoring other more inconvenient truths is not sustainable, nor desirable.…”

Section: Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Penalitymentioning

confidence: 99%