Researching elites at the margins of research ethics frameworks

Beizsley, Daniel

doi:10.5553/tcc/221195072019009002003

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“…My data consists of subjective interpretations about my own experiences as a ‘complete participant’ in the field, employed as a fully qualified probation practitioner over a 6-year period (Hesse-Biber, 2016). As probation is inherently secretive (Mawby and Worrall, 2013; Shah, 2020), this required ‘studying up’ the enigmatic topic of community corrections by recognising the inverted balance of power of the organisation that employed me and my own personal experience as the subject of research (Beizsley, 2019).…”

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Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Taylor

2023

European Journal of Probation

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Based on 6 years of probation practitioner experience in a metropolis of Canada, I provide an autoethnographic account reflecting on my fieldwork as I now commence doctoral studies. Contributing to discussions of experience in the penal atmosphere, I explore personal ethics and values, looking specifically to LSI-R software, where my experience with risk-based programming indicates a subjugation of both supervisees and supervisors. Studying penal aesthetics within the version of the software I used to assess criminogenic risk thus elucidates why evaluators tend to score their risk ratings upward rather than downward. Implications for a desistance paradigm are juxtaposed to the RNR model of offender management, where sensing visual and haptic stimuli pertains to an algorithmic governance mode limiting human connection. I conclude by reflecting on organisational values and behaviour to indicate where therapeutic alliances with criminalised people intersect criminalisation and desistance.

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Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Taylor

2023

European Journal of Probation

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Seismic Risks: a Criminological Analysis of European Investment Bank Support for the Castor Project

Beizsley

2020

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The Castor project was a proposed underground gas storage facility off Spain’s Mediterranean coast financed through a public–private partnership (PPP) between the Spanish state and a consortium led by the Spanish conglomerate Grupo ACS. During the project’s development, cost overruns led to it being refinanced through a bond issuance organized by the European Investment Bank (EIB)—the finance arm of the European Union (EU). On reaching the injection stage, gas escaped violently causing hundreds of small-scale earthquakes resulting in the project’s closure and, as per the terms of the concession, the generation of a €1.3 billion debt for Spanish gas consumers. Using criminological concepts and theory, this article will first explore how the seismic risks that the project posed were excluded from the EIB appraisal process before identifying the causes of the disaster as a product of the “financialization” of infrastructure and investor protection frameworks needed to sustain it.

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Researching elites at the margins of research ethics frameworks

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Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Seismic Risks: a Criminological Analysis of European Investment Bank Support for the Castor Project

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