Offender Supervision in Europe

McNeill, Fergus; Beyens, Kristel

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“…The key point here is that conceptions of quality (and hence of 'best practice' or 'quality practice') cannot be divorced from their contexts. But we would argue that understanding quality in supervision also requires richer articulations of the nature of supervision itself - both as a lived experience and as a contextualised and constructed practice (see McNeill and Beyens, 2013). These sorts of understandings of supervision require the application of research methods that move beyond traditional accounts of practice (and its 'quality') and extend into observational ethnographies of practice (Bauwens, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

What Matters in Practice? Understanding ‘Quality’ in the Routine Supervision of Offenders in Scotland

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McNeill

2014

Br J Soc Work

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Little is known about the nature, character and construction of quality in the routine supervision of offenders in Scotland. Quality is an important yet contested concept with multiple facets and features, but its meanings for practitioners are under-researched. This article will present findings from a study using Appreciative Inquiry to reveal how Scottish criminal justice social workers attempt to conceptualise and construct meanings of quality in their daily practice with people who have offended. Our findings conclude that despite significant fluctuation in criminal justice policy and practice, practitioners' ideas of quality seem to suggest resilience to both managerialism and punitiveness. Practitioners ultimately located quality within relational processes underpinned by social work values, but also saw it as being underscored by (or undermined by the lack of) adequate resourcing, professional supervision, flexibility and training.

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What Matters in Practice? Understanding ‘Quality’ in the Routine Supervision of Offenders in Scotland

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McNeill

2014

Br J Soc Work

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“…Recent European work on "mass supervision" (e.g., McNeill, 2019;McNeill & Beyens, 2013) and U.S. work on "mass probation" (Phelps, 2013(Phelps, , 2017 has confirmed-broadly in line with Cohen's (1985) thesis-that although supervisory sanctions have been promoted enthusiastically by reformers for their supposedly diversionary effects, the actual outcome has been a significant expansion and intensification of penal control (Aebi, Delgrande, & Marguet, 2015). In Scotland, an enduring policy commitment to reducing imprisonment has been discursively interwoven with rehabilitative, reparative, and managerial logics at different times in the history of supervision.…”

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Penal and welfare conditionality: Discipline or degradation?

McNeill

2019

Soc Policy Adm

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This paper aims to complement analyses of welfare conditionality by examining what can be learned from studies of conditional punishment in the criminal justice system. Drawing on a range of recent studies, I explore lived experiences of the conditionality attendant on penal forms of supervision; penal forms that have expanded rapidly in recent decades. I argue that, to paraphrase Stan Cohen, such supervision is as much about the dispersal of degradation as it is about the dispersal of discipline. Indeed, in contemporary western societies, both in punishment and in welfare systems, I suggest that conditionality functions less to discipline poor and marginalised people and more to disqualify them from the entitlements of ordinary citizenship. In so doing, conditionality constructs them as denizens, thus serving to limit the liabilities for the state that arise from social inequalities. Extending Delroy Fletcher and Sharon Wright's metaphor, the abusive slaps now meted out in concert by both hands of the penal state are as much about degrading and denying the entitlements of “needy” denizens as they are about influencing their conduct. But crucially, even within the increasingly restrictive context created by these developments, penal practitioners can and do provide care and assistance.

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“…Indeed, in Lowman et al (1987), the term 'transcarceration' was used to depart from the notion of supervision as an 'alternative' in favour of the notion of transfusion of social control through an interlinked network of institutions and practices. However, as Robinson argues, since the 1980s, most scholars have been preoccupied with mass incarceration, resulting in community sanctions having become the 'Cinderella' of 'Punishment and Society' studies, a 'neglected and under-theorised zone ' (2016' ( : 101, quoted in McNeill [2019; see also McNeill and Beyens [2013]). One of McNeill's aims in Pervasive Punishment is 'to help Cinderella come to the "Punishment and Society Ball" ' (7).…”

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Community Sanctions as Pervasive Punishment: A Review Essay

Brown¹

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Community sanctions involving supervision are a neglected field in criminological research and are widely viewed in political, media and public discourse as ‘not prison’ and a ‘let-off’. An important new book, Pervasive Punishment by Fergus McNeill (2019), redresses this neglect by attempting to ‘make sense of mass supervision’ as a lived experience. Utilising a short story and allied projects with supervisees involving photographs and songs, he constructs a ‘counter-visual’ criminology that elucidates the ways supervision constitutes ‘pervasive punishment’. This article reviews McNeill’s argument and assesses its applicability in the Australian context.

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Offender Supervision in Europe

Cited by 54 publications

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What Matters in Practice? Understanding ‘Quality’ in the Routine Supervision of Offenders in Scotland

What Matters in Practice? Understanding ‘Quality’ in the Routine Supervision of Offenders in Scotland

Penal and welfare conditionality: Discipline or degradation?

Community Sanctions as Pervasive Punishment: A Review Essay

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