‘Penal Drift’ and the Voluntary Sector

Maguire, Mike; Williams, Kate; Corcoran, Mary

doi:10.1111/hojo.12307

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“…The proliferation of entertainmentoriented forms of dark tourism is a trend. Some of these arrangements and networks involving non-profits and state-run sites also show the overlap between penal system entities and the charity sector (Tomczak & Buck, 2019;Maguire et al, 2019), although relying on such shaming tropes runs opposite to the mandates of many non-profits in the social services sector that work with people pushed to the margins requiring inclusion. Mason and Sayner (2019) describe several ways that silence manifests in museum spaces.…”

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“Can you make it out alive?” Investigating Penal Imaginaries at Forts, Sanitaria, Asylums, and Segregated Schools

Mussell

Walby

Piché

2021

Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice &Amp; Criminology

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We draw from literature on penal imaginaries to examine representations at fright nights and other staged cultural scenes from across Canada and the United States that reproduce justifications for imprisonment and punishment. Based on an analysis of online content and news coverage of fright nights organized at forts, sanitoria, psychiatric institutions/asylums, and segregated schools, we demonstrate that these displays mobilize stereotypes and shame to denigrate prisoners and naturalize imprisonment. Moreover, we show that these displays invoke health tropes concerning contagion to intensify fears regarding prisoners by portraying them as a threat to the social body, further rationalizing the existence of human caging as a means of addressing social unease and anxieties. Relying on ideas of risk and contamination, this penal imaginary reproduces punitive ideas that normalize the deprivation of liberty including in (COVID-19) pandemic times. We conclude by discussing the significance of our findings for the study of penal imaginaries and penal spectatorship. well as their representations on screen and other cultural sites (Brown, 2009). The process of representing punishment for profit in ways that are often demeaning to prisoners is common at prison museums (Walby & Piché, 2015). Infatuation with penality extends to fright nights held at forts, jail and bail fundraisers held by nonprofit organizations, and other kinds of Halloween seasonal events meant to entertain and enthral. We define fright nights as seasonal horror themed events staged at night, while a jail and bail is an event where volunteers are "jailed" and supporters make donations for their "bail." Such events continue and take on new meaning during the COVID-19 pandemic era, with continued alarm over containing "risk," which we address in the conclusion of the paper.Tourism and heritage managers are often concerned with the views of visitors (Devine, 2016), and may take steps to appease them, including by adjusting content or marketing them to be more entertaining, but not necessarily more educational.Museums and tourist sites often put artifacts on display, which draws the tourist gaze toward them, while stripping the objects of context (Ott et al., 2011). Digital displays and communications are a part of the new world of tourism and museums (Webmoor, 2008). Beyond professional curation, there are many amateur displays organized by a

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“Can you make it out alive?” Investigating Penal Imaginaries at Forts, Sanitaria, Asylums, and Segregated Schools

Mussell

Walby

Piché

2021

Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice &Amp; Criminology

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“…The concept of penal drift echoes Wolch’s (1990) concern with receding boundaries between agencies of criminal justice and civil society, although in these circumstances any meshing of informal penal-welfare roles occurred by default and in the context of the withdrawal of the state (Maguire et al, forthcoming). For different reasons, interviewees were both uneasy with and frustrated by the tacit expectation that the voluntary sector should provide primary penal and social services by default.…”

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Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation

Corcoran

Maguire²,

Williams³

2019

Probation Journal

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This article explores the experience of voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) in the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) experiment. It identifies the motivations, expectations, rationalities and experiences of voluntary sector participants, drawing on interviews conducted with charity directors and community rehabilitation company executives between 2015 and 2017. It concludes by reflecting on the losses and gains that accrued to different parts of the voluntary sector, as well as critically examining the conditions by which ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ were structured within the TR framework.

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“…Furthermore, beyond the fundamental structure of PSS, the role of TSOs in the supervision of individuals on PSS needs to be considered. TR has expanded the role of TSOs into probation practice, with mixed success (Burke et al, 2020;Clinks, 2016Clinks, , 2018Corcoran et al, 2019;Maguire et al, 2019). The next probation model features a 'dynamic framework' meaning third sector partners will deliver additional 'resettlement and rehabilitation work' (HMPPS, 2020b).…”

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Post-sentence supervision: A case study of the extension of community resettlement support for short sentence prisoners

Cracknell

2020

Probation Journal

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Introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 created a period of post-sentence supervision (PSS) after licence for individuals serving short custodial sentences. This empirical study features on the ground views and perspectives of practitioners and service users of PSS in one case-study area. Findings from this research suggest a number of issues and ambiguities with the enactment of the sentence. These include ambiguities regarding the correct use of enforcement procedures; the antagonistic relationship between third sector and Community Rehabilitation Company staff, primarily centred around transferring cases and concerns over the use of ‘light touch’ supervision and uncertainties over what the rehabilitative aims of this sentence mean in practice. These issues led to practitioners questioning the legitimacy of the third sector organisation involved in the management of PSS, while service users experienced PSS as a frustrating ‘pass-the-parcel’ experience, where resettlement support was constantly stalled and restarted at each juncture of the sentence. Before briefly discussing the potential future of PSS under the next iteration of probation policy, this article concludes by arguing that there is emerging evidence of a commonality of failures occurring at every juncture of the short sentence, undermining resettlement prospects for the long-neglected short sentence population.

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‘Penal Drift’ and the Voluntary Sector

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

“Can you make it out alive?” Investigating Penal Imaginaries at Forts, Sanitaria, Asylums, and Segregated Schools

“Can you make it out alive?” Investigating Penal Imaginaries at Forts, Sanitaria, Asylums, and Segregated Schools

Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation

Post-sentence supervision: A case study of the extension of community resettlement support for short sentence prisoners

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