Progressive penality as performance

Buchan, Jamie; McNeill, Fergus

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“…Accordingly, we should locate the dis/enfranchisement debate within contemporaneous political context; here, a post-devolution, 'nation building' Scotland. The dis/enfranchisement debate, we argue below, sits at a boundary between conflicting value-commitments ('inclusion'/'exclusion', 'progressiveness'/ 'toughness') which are linked to arguments about Scotland's national character, political formations and potential constitutional futures (see also Buchan & McNeill, 2023).…”

Section: Ambivalent 'Welfarism'?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is enduring conflict between the idea of prison as a desirable site for rehabilitation and treatment, and recognition of it as a fundamentally disruptive and disintegrative mode of containment (McAra, 1999, p.369). At least since the report of the Scottish Prisons Commission (2008), there has been a level of consensus over the need for ‘decarceration’ in Scotland, and an acknowledgement that Scotland's high imprisonment is at odds with many of its expressed penal values (Buchan, 2020, p.85; Buchan & McNeill, 2023).…”

Section: Scottish Penal Values and Dis/enfranchisementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the context of the Scottish National Party's (SNP) project of ‘democratic renewal’, and a prison service publicly committed to promoting citizenship for all prisoners (Scottish Prison Service, 2013), we might ask why these ‘boundaries’ have not been pushed further. Accounts of policy evolutions since 2007 have suggested a degree of government avoidance of ‘controversial’ criminal justice moves because of the value placed on nurturing the widest possible support for independence, and an associated ‘capacity building’ project (Annison, 2015, p.49; Buchan & McNeill, 2023; McAra, 2008).…”

Section: Scottish Penal Values and Dis/enfranchisementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Criminal disenfranchisement: Developments in, and lessons from, Scotland

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This article explores both the reasons for, and the potential impact of, the current level of disenfranchisement in Scotland. First, we scrutinise Scottish legal provisions for their compatibility with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)’s jurisprudence, which require disenfranchisement's aims to be clarified and delimited. Second, we examine where disenfranchisement sits within the wider context of Scottish penal values, and what principles underlie its imposition. Finally, we turn to a discussion of whether and how dis/enfranchisement aligns with the Scottish Government's commitments to the rehabilitation and reintegration of people who have been in prison, and to related empirical evidence about desistance from crime. The limited enfranchisement of prisoners established by the Scottish Government in 2020 avoided these core questions and this article aims to help address this neglect and to open up dialogue on these issues.

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Rehabilitation as Performance: Symbolizing Penal Welfare in Chinese Community Corrections

Jiang,

Chen

2024

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The recent establishment of Chinese community-based corrections (CCC) signals Chinese reformers’ ostensible embrace of the rehabilitation ideal and a looming lenient turn in Chinese criminal justice policy. While a growing literature has studied the operational effects, social functions and political significance of CCC, little attention has been paid to the performative aspect or symbolic significance of China’s efforts at offender rehabilitation through community correctional processes. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in parole settings of two Chinese cities, we show how the CCC’s rehabilitative work practically operates as a form of performative governance, shedding light on the strategies and processes used by penal actors to achieve rehabilitative performance. In routine rehabilitative practices, justice officials typically collaborate with service professionals and/or parolees to forge a team performance—either by staging the fulfilment of indicators or by engaging in glorifying rituals. The study contends that when the implementation of rehabilitation is geared towards serving the interests of the state and is preoccupied with meeting bureaucratic ends, while ignoring the voices and precarious situations of offenders, the CCC enterprise of providing correctional services becomes a symbolic performance rather than a substantive accomplishment. The implications of the study for research and policy are discussed.

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Borrowed legitimacy and beseeched resources: How competing professionals negotiate identities and forge symbiosis within Chinese community corrections

Li,

Jiang

2024

Punishment & Society

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The recent formalization of Chinese community corrections (CCC), with its explicit emphasis on the professional provision of rehabilitative services to offenders, signals Chinese policymakers striving to create a penal modernist project. It also instigates antagonism between justice and service-oriented professionals, who seek to assert and carve out respective jurisdictions over rehabilitative work. There is a dearth of research touching on the ways in which potential tensions, or contractionary professional identities, are managed in practice. Drawing on a set of ethnographic and interview data gleaned from a large Chinese city, which pioneered and implemented the professional model of community corrections, this study examines the negotiation of professional power and interprofessional dynamics in rehabilitative work. The analysis suggests that during professional contestation, CCC actors deploy strategies to maintain identity boundaries, while making compromises and ceding jurisdictional authority to the opposing group. The negotiated order is accomplished in this hybridized institutional field, primarily through variegated demands of professionals involved for capacity enhancement, legitimacy reinforcement, or pragmatic survival. A symbiotic, but continually fractious, configuration is thus forged, blurring professional boundaries and breeding reciprocal benefits that sustain collaboration. Implications for ameliorating CCC's rehabilitative work are discussed.

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Progressive penality as performance

Cited by 4 publications

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Criminal disenfranchisement: Developments in, and lessons from, Scotland

Criminal disenfranchisement: Developments in, and lessons from, Scotland

Rehabilitation as Performance: Symbolizing Penal Welfare in Chinese Community Corrections

Borrowed legitimacy and beseeched resources: How competing professionals negotiate identities and forge symbiosis within Chinese community corrections

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