Prisoners' Rights since the Woolf Report: Progress or Procrastination?

Eady, Dennis

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2007.00473.x

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“…Despite the significant reforms made to the English police service following the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 and the subsequent Macpherson Inquiry (Macpherson, 1999), the police are still believed to be 'institutionally racist' (Rollock, 2009) and their practices have changed little since the Human Rights Act 1998 (see Bullock and Johnson, 2012). Similarly, it has been asserted that no human rights culture has been instilled in the prison service (Eady, 2007). Given the pressures on the public sector to compete for government contracts to run prison and probation services and the increasing involvement of the private sector (Bell, 2013a(Bell, , 2013b, it is likely that those involved in running such services will be more preoccupied by cost considerations than those of human rights and offender welfare.…”

Section: The Limits Of Public Criminology As It Is Commonly Definedmentioning

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There is an alternative: Challenging the logic of neoliberal penality

Bell

2014

Theoretical Criminology

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This article seeks to sketch out alternatives to neoliberal penality by seeking to undermine the four institutional logics of neoliberalism as identified by Loïc Wacquant (2009). It begins by critically analysing the potential value of public criminology as an exit strategy, suggesting that whilst this approach has much value, popular versions of it are in fact rather limited on account of their exclusion of offenders themselves from the debate and their optimism about the capacity of existing institutions to challenge the current punitive consensus. It suggests that a genuinely 'public' criminology should be informed by an abolitionist stance to both current penal policies and the neoliberal system as a whole. This may be the best means of truly democratizing penal politics.

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Section: The Limits Of Public Criminology As It Is Commonly Definedmentioning

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There is an alternative: Challenging the logic of neoliberal penality

Bell

2014

Theoretical Criminology

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“…Moreover, there are few traces of human rights to be found in criminological research on the daily life of UK prisons and, within legal research, there is often a general scepticism about the role of (human rights) law as a serious force in prison management or reform (e.g. Eady, 2007;Lazarus, 2004;Scott, 2008;cf. McEvoy, 2001).…”

Section: Human Rights As Legal Risk and Legal Risk+mentioning

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Human rights as risk: UK prisons and the management of risk and rights

Whitty

2011

Punishment & Society

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Discourses of risk and human rights circulate on a daily basis in the UK prison sector. Little attention, however, has been devoted to the overlap between the demands of organizational risk management and Human Rights Act compliance. This article highlights how the shift towards 'business risk' management in prison governance has occurred alongside increased recognition of the ability of human rights to manifest as significant organizational risks (for example, legal or reputational). Three 'rights as risk' prisoner case studies from across the UK are used to show how human rights violations can produce both legal risk and, what I term, 'legal risk+'. Contrary to pessimistic accounts of risk, the article concludes by calling for further scrutiny of the potential of organizational risk management to result in, or enhance, rights compliance -whereby human rights are viewed through a risk lens, and not just a rights one.

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“…However, problems endure in England and Wales. There is ongoing warehousing of people with complex problems in overcrowded, old, and unsatisfactory buildings ( Eady, 2007 ; Tomczak and Bennett, 2020 ) and restricted toilet access for those without in-cell sanitation ( Day et al, 2015 ).…”

Section: The Woolf Inquirymentioning

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Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot

Buck

Tomczak

2022

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Prisoners are a critical source of prison regulation around the world, but regulation by (rather than of) prisoners remains little analysed. In this article, we utilise the 1990 riots at HMP Strangeways (England), as a case study of prisoners (re)shaping imprisonment. We examine prisoners’ roles in these riots and subsequent cross-sectoral regulatory activities. We innovatively use the four-phase process of translation from actor-network theory to guide document analysis of (1) Lord Woolf’s official inquiry into the riots and (2) the voluntary organisation Prison Reform Trust’s follow-up report. We explore how participatory approaches could inform prison regulation through (former) prisoners partnering with external regulators throughout the processes of identifying problems and solutions to establish broader alliances seeking social change.

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Prisoners' Rights since the Woolf Report: Progress or Procrastination?

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

There is an alternative: Challenging the logic of neoliberal penality

There is an alternative: Challenging the logic of neoliberal penality

Human rights as risk: UK prisons and the management of risk and rights

Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot

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