The Corrections-Commercial Complex

Lilly, J. Robert; Knepper, Paul

doi:10.1177/0011128793039002002

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“…In turn, this contaminates the professional mentalities and moral economy of organisational functions, which has already occurred in the USA with, for example, The Prison Industrial Complex (Goldberg and Evans, 2009;Lilly and Knepper, 1993), where a fusion of private, corporate, and governmental interests coalesce to reduce public costs by creating opportunities for private enterprise to generate profits from crime and punishment. These are the interests that recode organisations from a social to an economic function.…”

Section: Political and Moral In Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A tale of two economies: the political and the moral in neoliberalism

Whitehead

Crawshaw

2014

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Purpose -This article aims to critically explore current forms of neoliberalism and their impact upon the moral economy. The authors examine how the dominant neoliberal political economy impacts upon three overlapping registers: individual subjectivity, national reconstructions and organizational transformations. These three registers are fashioned by, and subsequently help to reproduce, the contours of the prevailing politico-economic system. The market-driven ethic of neoliberalism, however, is diametrically opposed to that of a moral economy concerned with universalism and equality in meeting human need. Design/methodology/approach -This is a conceptual theoretical piece. Findings -The result is that the latter have been replaced by competitive individualism as societies reconstruct themselves in the image of the market place. This profound cultural shift is well known, but in this article, the authors will claim that it has in turn had a profound impact upon individual subjectivities and the key institutions and organisations that have long formed the basis of the Western social democratic consensus. Originality/value -It is original because it theorises the impact of neoliberalism on organisations.

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Section: Political and Moral In Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A tale of two economies: the political and the moral in neoliberalism

Whitehead

Crawshaw

2014

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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“…Regulation can come directly from government, from a designated government agency, from an independent commission, or even from a trade association, as has been the case with prisons in the US (Lilly and Knepper 1993). There are voluntary regulatory regimes with no legally binding rules (Whitford and Tucker 2012), regimes with activist government regulators who are eager to create new rules (Bamberger and Mulligan 2011), and regimes in which industry benefits from a captured regulator (Croucher 2011).…”

Section: The Temporal Dimension In Regulatory Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

After “the Regulatory Moment” in Comparative Regulatory Studies: Modeling the Early Stages of Regulatory Life Cycles

Howlett

Newman

2013

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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Regulation has been the subject of a significant amount of scholarship, mostly debating the necessity of regulatory action or examining the phenomenon of capture. Less attention has been paid to the early stages of regulatory development, during which the structure of the regime is defined. By revisiting the life-cycle analogy of regulation first proposed by Bernstein in 1955, we offer a new model that explains the development of these early stages in greater depth. This model is then applied to case studies of several sectors in the US and UK to highlight the general pattern of early regulatory regime development.

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“…This is surprising to the extent that in the contemporary era, corporations have played an increasingly large role in influencing penal practices, especially with respect to providing campaign financing to legislators in states with private correctional systems and expansion legislation (Lilly andKnepper 1993, Chang andThompson 2002). Though not widely examined, research on this issue has primarily focused on the expansion of the private prison sector, omitting other 142 M.J. Lynch and T.N.…”

Section: Politics and Punishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Richards important political lobby groups. For example, in California, the union representing prison guards has long been recognized as an influential political lobby group (Lilly andKnepper 1993, Schiraldi 1994). Correctional system workers have a vested interest in maintaining prison system growth (Duffee 1990) and lobby state officials on this issue (e.g., see on Hawaii, Mendoza 2010).…”

Section: Politics and Punishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

State correctional policy survey: what state correctional departments say they do

Lynch

Richards

2011

Journal of Crime and Justice

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Contemporary discussions of correctional systems have been based on an assumption concerning the goals of those systems. These assumptions, which have been drawn from philosophical perspectives and unstructured observations of correctional practices, suggest that correctional practices follow specific policy goals such as protecting the public. Actual state correctional policies related to correctional goals have not, surprisingly, been assessed to ascertain the validity of these theoretical assumptions about correctional policy. This research investigates correctional goals' alignment with accepted penal philosophies by examining the mission statements of each US department of corrections. Using qualitative content analysis key words and phrases were extracted from each mission statement (N ¼ 50) and categorized to provide a count of correctional goals and an examination of patterns across state correctional systems and across various missions. Results indicate 16 different correctional goals identified by states' departments of corrections. Not surprisingly, the most frequently cited correctional goals include: protecting the public, providing the secure confinement of offenders, and offering opportunities for rehabilitation. Findings further describe missions that are the least cited by states as well as clusters of missions that frequently cooccur. Implications and opportunities for future research are also discussed.

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The Corrections-Commercial Complex

Cited by 50 publications

References 7 publications

A tale of two economies: the political and the moral in neoliberalism

A tale of two economies: the political and the moral in neoliberalism

After “the Regulatory Moment” in Comparative Regulatory Studies: Modeling the Early Stages of Regulatory Life Cycles

State correctional policy survey: what state correctional departments say they do

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