Prisoners' Adjustment, Correctional Officers, and Context: The Foreground and Background of Punishment in Late Modernity
In: Law and Society Review, Jg. 42 (2008), S. 307
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Prisons changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century in this country. Inmate populations expanded; new prisons, including high-security, "super-max" facilities and private prisons were built at an alarming rate; and those who were charged with working in these institutions generally have inadequate training (Britton 2003; Irwin 2005). Public concern shifted to isolating and managing the "dangerous classes" rather than reforming or helping them to change their ways. While all of this has been well documented and heralded as hallmarks of the "penal harm movement" or the "new penology" (Feeley & Simon 1992), an equally compelling thesis points to an uneven and incomplete transformation in penal policy, one that varies across social contexts and one that reflects criminal justice actors' differential abilities to absorb new ideologies about punishment (Kruttschnitt & Gartner 2003:59; Lynch 1998; O'Malley 1992, 1996; Garland 1985, 1990, 1997, 1999). According to Garland, "[t]his ongoing attempt to re-orient criminal control institutions and revise their relations to a changing social environment [is] very much a matter of patchwork repairs and interim solutions rather than well thought-out reconstruction" (2001:103). Some scholars have tried to explain this "patchwork" effect, or the noted variation in the assimilation of the penal harm movement. Simon and Feeley (1995), acknowledging the limitations of their own conceptualization of the "new penology," argue that there is a disjuncture between populist views about crime and criminality and actual penal policies. More recently, Cheliotis (2006) suggests three rationales. First, at the point of implementation of ...
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Prisoners' Adjustment, Correctional Officers, and Context: The Foreground and Background of Punishment in Late Modernity
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Vuolo, Mike |
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Zeitschrift: | Law and Society Review, Jg. 42 (2008), S. 307 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2008 |
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