Who needs restraining? Re-examining the use of physical restraint in an English young offender institution

Gooch, Kate

doi:10.1080/09649069.2015.997999

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“…Then they'd know how it felt, because that's how it feels to me. (Wilson 2003, p. 422) Some previous work into prison staff and prisoners' perspectives, from the 1980s in Britain, had also identified similar issues regarding racial/ethnic hierarchy and ethnic solidarity (Genders et al 1989). In one of the most recent ethnographic accounts of prisoner perspectives, Phillips (2008) in her two-site study of an adult prison and a YOI, showed social class and neighbourhood identities to be more salient and argued that multiculturalism discourses were evidently and actively negotiated in daily interethnic encounters through a shifting process of otherisation in the context of ethnicity, faith, class, and nationality.…”

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Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales: Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data

2018

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Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in youth justice outcomes and a fall in the number of children drawn into the youth justice system in England and Wales. However, it appears that children from some backgrounds have not benefited as much as others from this change. There is a wealth of academic literature on processes of criminalisation, policies, and practices of youth justice and the experiences of children, particularly boys, in custody. However, there is little detailed understanding of how these processes, policies, and practices affect children from different backgrounds. This paper examines the most intrusive aspect of youth justice, namely, custodial sentences. Through an examination of the Inspectorate of Prisons’ reports and associated surveys, this paper seeks to explore black and minority ethnic boys’ perceptions of their experiences of custody.

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Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales: Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data

2018

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“…Such concerns are well-established in the literature. Features such as the use of physical restraint (Carlile, 2006;Gooch, 2015;Hart, 2008; Joint Committee on Human Rights, 2008; Office of the Children's Commissioner, 2011), the loss of liberty (Sykes, 1958) and solitary confinement (Gooch, 2016) and bullying and violence (Butler, 2008;Gooch, 2019;Ministry of Justice, 2016) have led several scholars to conclude that children's experiences in custody amount to institutionalised abuse (Goldson, 2009;Gooch, 2015) and a violation of children's rights (Joint Committee on Human Rights, 2019). This has been amplified by the impact of COVID 19, during which concern was expressed that children were only let out of their cell for one hour per day (HMIP, 2020).…”

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The experiences of children in custody: a story of survival

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Purpose This paper aims to explore children’s experiences during their time in custody in England and Wales. Design/methodology/approach A total of 48 children were interviewed, as part of a wider study on children’s pathways into, through and out of custody. The focus of this paper is on children’s experiences in young offender institutions. Findings The findings from this study suggest that children’s behaviour during incarceration can be understood largely as strategies for surviving the hostile environment in which they find themselves. Practical implications This paper seeks to make a series of recommendations for practitioner and policymakers, based on the findings of this study. Originality/value The findings from this study suggest that children’s behaviour during incarceration can be understood largely as strategies for surviving the hostile environment in which they find themselves. This paper seeks to highlight specific elements of this environment and offers an insight into how they may impact upon a child's sense of self and place in the world.

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“…The routine use of physical restraint as a response to challenging behaviour in child custody has frequently been called into question (Hart & Howell, 2004; Stone, 2012). It has been declared at the very least controversial, unsafe and in some cases unlawful (Gooch, 2015; Howard League, 2011).…”

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Behaviour management or institutionalised repression? Children’s experiences of physical restraint in custody

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This article reports on a study of children's experiences of being physically restrained by staff in a range of custodial settings. The research was carried out in collaboration with a team of young researchers, and generated rich and insightful accounts of children's experiences of legitimised violence in the form of ‘restraint’. These lead us to reflect on whether this is a normal and justifiable feature of custody, or as oppressive and unacceptable to the extent that it represents a form of brutalisation, and an unnecessary, unjustifiable and repressive form of control, where the rights of children are routinely transgressed.

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Who needs restraining? Re-examining the use of physical restraint in an English young offender institution

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales: Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data

Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales: Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data

The experiences of children in custody: a story of survival

Behaviour management or institutionalised repression? Children’s experiences of physical restraint in custody

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