Punishment and Care Reappraised

Canton, Rob; Dominey, Jane

doi:10.5040/9781509929665.ch-002

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“…For example, compulsory ‘welfare’ interventions, especially when enforced by threat of recall, can be hard to distinguish from punishment. Again, the relationship between care and control is much more complex than a mere antonymic opposition (Canton and Dominey 2020). Second, this type of binary analysis lends itself to the beguiling but misleading metaphor of a pendulum, supposing that practice represents policy in an unproblematic way, one orientation dominant while the other is suppressed until the pendulum swings back.…”

Section: Rationales For Post-custodial Involvementmentioning

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After-care, resettlement and social inclusion: The role of probation

Canton

2022

Probation Journal

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The priority of public protection has moved probation away from its historical concerns with providing after-care, now emphasising risk management as well as the continuation of the sentence in the community. Yet people released from prison notoriously face many difficulties in accessing the social resources they need for desistance and meet with mistrust associated with their criminal records. This paper looks at the responsibilities of the Probation Service in their supervision of people leaving prison, considering the role of probation in promoting social inclusion and supporting desistance.

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After-care, resettlement and social inclusion: The role of probation

Canton

2022

Probation Journal

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“…However, the responsibilities of probation practitioners also include public protection and the enforcement of court orders. While the notion that care and control are necessarily in opposition is unhelpful (Canton and Dominey, 2020), the idea the probation service should care for offenders sits uncomfortably with political rhetoric that has a focus on punishment, a reluctance to attribute crime to problems in society, and a desire to be on the side of the (ideal) victim.…”

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“…Probation workers have been aware of the moral significance of their work from the earliest days. In recent years, these aspects have often been explored in terms of probation values , considering the moral worth, the politics and the practical feasibility of finding ways of giving expression to probation's ethical commitments (Canton and Dominey, 2017: Chapter 3; Cowburn et al, 2013; Gelsthorpe, 2007; Nellis and Gelsthorpe, 2004; Williams, 1994). Sometimes, in the contested political arena, it can seem as if these concerns have been pushed aside in the relentless pursuit of the enquiry to find out ‘what works’.…”

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Probation and the ethics of care

Dominey

Canton

2022

Probation Journal

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Discussions of probation's values can be enriched by an appreciation of care ethics. This approach is explained with attention to its emphasis on relationships and individualisation. The implications for probation's work are explored, including its significance for the supervisory relationship, its challenges for the management of the organisation and the value of individualised approaches. Care ethics argues for practice shaped not by rules and processes, but by people and their circumstances in all their diversity. Care ethics offers a principled and effective approach to probation's work.

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“…Legal initiatives, pre‐sentence reports on family circumstances (Flynn et al, 2015), and the inclusion of childcare responsibilities as a consideration within sentencing guidelines have been suggested but no such measures exist in NSW or Victoria (Trotter et al, 2015). More broadly, a “proliferation of sentencing purposes to which courts must have regard” have generated political opposition and inconsistencies in sentencing (Canton, 2020, sec. Punishment and the ethics of care).…”

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“…At first glance, the ethics of care seem to be at odds with the objectives of the justice system: deterrence, punishment, rehabilitation, protection of the public and reparations. However, Canton (2020) has argued that, through frameworks of desistance, restorative justice, censure and reconciliation, an ethics of care is compatible with all but one of these objectives. Only deterrence remains at odds with care, since it issues a threat to potential offenders rather than an appeal to their membership of a common moral community.…”

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Whose responsibility? Reexamining Victorian justice system responses to the children and families of parents in prison

Hart¹,

Field-Pimm²

2021

Aust J Social Issues

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Research into the children and families affected by parental imprisonment has demonstrated a range of well-being concerns and proposed a comprehensive array of policy and practice responses, but little practical change has been achieved. With a focus on the Victorian justice system, we provide an overview of the literature and the current service provision, investigating why the policy inertia has persisted. Using feminist theory on the ethics and practices of care, we reexamine the findings of two significant Australian studies into the child and family-centeredness of professionals within the police, courts, prisons and child protection agencies. We demonstrate that, at best, care is fragile and rendered from the margins of roles that are designed to be care-less in relation to this cohort.At worst, justice system personnel and procedures can be resolutely uncaring. We suggest that reluctance among policymakers to displace attention from "core business" may explain the absence of policies to care for children and families of imprisoned parents, and highlight two further strategies: leadership to protect and extend the fragile care practice within the justice system; and new mandates to care for children and families of imprisoned parents extending from familyoriented human services outside the justice system.

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Punishment and Care Reappraised

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After-care, resettlement and social inclusion: The role of probation

After-care, resettlement and social inclusion: The role of probation

Probation and the ethics of care

Whose responsibility? Reexamining Victorian justice system responses to the children and families of parents in prison

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