New Labour, Social Justice and Children: Political Calculation and the Deserving-Undeserving Schism

Goldson, Barry

doi:10.1093/bjsw/32.6.683

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“…Stigma occurs when a person or group is rejected by or not fully accepted into society (Goffman, 1974). Prior research has considered how the use of accounting mechanisms can create, support or maintain stigma (Neu & Wright, 1992;Walker, 2008) and also, how the use of accounting mechanisms can alleviate or remove stigma (Miley & Read, 2016).…”

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through accounting practices that degraded the poor, Walker (2008) demonstrated that management of both the poor and poor relief were made more difficult. Stigmatisation confers labels on people, spoiling their identities, a term that refers to the disqualification of the stigmatised from full acceptance into society (Goffman, 1974). Labelling can create stigma (Goffman, 1974).…”

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stigmatisation confers labels on people, spoiling their identities, a term that refers to the disqualification of the stigmatised from full acceptance into society (Goffman, 1974). Labelling can create stigma (Goffman, 1974). To illustrate this, Goffman (1974) presents an example of societies unaccepting of homosexuality.…”

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Labelling can create stigma (Goffman, 1974). To illustrate this, Goffman (1974) presents an example of societies unaccepting of homosexuality. He notes that in such societies, a person who is not homosexual, but who is labelled as such, will suffer the same stigma as those who are homosexual.…”

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conversely, Miley and Read (2016) drew on Goffman (1974) to show how accounting practices could overcome the spoiling of identities, giving foundling children in eighteenth century…”

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“This degrading and stealthy practice”

Miley

Read

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make visible the relationship between accounting and stigma in the absence of accounting. This research examines how failure to implement mandatory accounting and auditing requirements in the management of indigenous wages contributed to stigmatisation of indigenous Australians and led to maladministration and unchecked financial fraud that continued for over 75 years. The accounting failures are by those charged with protecting the financial interests of the indigenous population. Design/methodology/approach An historical and qualitative approach has been used that draws upon archival and contemporary sources. Findings Prior research has examined the nexus between accounting mechanisms and stigma. This research suggests that the absence of accounting mechanisms can also contribute to stigma. Research limitations/implications This research highlights the complex relationship between accounting and stigma, suggesting that it is simplistic to examine the nexus between accounting and stigma without considering the social forces in which stigmatisation occurs. Social implications This research demonstrates decades of failed accounting have contributed to the ongoing social disadvantage of indigenous Australians. The presence of accounting mechanisms cannot eradicate the past, or fix the present, but can create an environment where financial abuse does not occur. Originality/value This research demonstrates that stigma can be exacerbated in the negative space created by failures or absence of accounting.

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Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conversely, Miley and Read (2016) drew on Goffman (1974) to show how accounting practices could overcome the spoiling of identities, giving foundling children in eighteenth century…”

Section: Why Are Aborigines Still Living In Increasing Squalor?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“This degrading and stealthy practice”

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2018

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New Labour and youth justice

Smith

2003

Children & Society

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The paper discusses the reasons for the large amount of critical commentary that New Labour's reforms of the youth justice system have attracted. It explores the extent to which there is something ‘new’ about these reforms, suggesting that there are important differences when New Labour's approach is compared with its predecessor's. It then discusses the main lines of critical commentary on the reforms, concluding that much of it is over‐abstract and insufficiently empirically informed. The paper concludes with some ambiguous evidence on what the impact of the reforms has actually been. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Moving the participation agenda forward

et al. 2004

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This article sets the scene for the other papers in this Special Issue on children's and young people's participation, by outlining the nature of the ESRC Seminar Series from which all are derived and by developing the main themes discussed at the seminars. The focus of this Issue is participation by children and young people as this relates to differing notions of social exclusion and inclusion. This article critically examines participation in the contexts of policy, practice, research and theory. In many respects the environments in each of these domains is supportive of increased participation, yet there is also much evidence of limited impact by recent participative measures and of disillusionment by many young people who have been engaged in consultation and decision-making. A way forward is suggested, which entails collaboration among all the key stakeholders including children and young people, connects participatory and social inclusion aims and mechanisms, and is committed to achieving tangible outcomes based on the wishes of children and young people

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New Labour, Social Justice and Children: Political Calculation and the Deserving-Undeserving Schism

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

“This degrading and stealthy practice”

“This degrading and stealthy practice”

New Labour and youth justice

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