Risk, Human Rights and the Management of a Serious Sex Offender

Whitty, Noel

doi:10.1515/zfrs-2007-0214

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“…Yet law and society scholarship on the "politics of rights" argues that legal rights are empty without political support (Scheingold [1974(Scheingold [ ] 2004Stryker 2007). European scholarship also demonstrates that the contours of national political culture shape prisoner's rights accountability environments (Van Zyl Smit and Snacken 2009;Christoffersen and Madsen 2011;Whitty 2011;Cliquennois and Snacken 2018). Depending on the political context, both the political right and the left in Europe have politicized prisoner rights by framing them as "wins for prisoners" or as "prison rights violations," respectively (Loader 2007;Whitty 2007;Xenakis and Cheliotis 2018;Caputo and Ciuffoletti 2018).…”

Section: The (Missing) Politics Of Prisoners' Rightsmentioning

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Patchwork Protection: The Politics of Prisoners’ Rights Accountability in the United States

Schoenfeld,

Rhoten,

Campbell

2024

Law Soc. Inq.

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In recent years US prisons have failed to meet legally required minimum standards of care and protection of incarcerated people. Explanations for the failure to protect prisoners in the United States focus on the effects of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and lack of adequate external oversight. However, very little scholarship empirically examines how different systems of accountability for prisoners’ rights work (or do not work) together. In this article, we introduce an accountability framework that helps us examine the prisoners’ rights “accountability environment” in the United States. We then compare two post-PLRA case studies of failure to protect incarcerated women from sexual assault in two different states. We find that the prisoners’ rights accountability environment is a patchwork of legal, bureaucratic, professional, and political systems. The patchwork accountability environment consists of a web of hierarchical and interdependent relationships that constrain or enable accountability. We argue that ultimately the effectiveness of prisoners’ rights accountability environments depends on whether protecting prisoners’ rights aligns with the priorities of dominant political officials. Our argument has implications for efforts to improve prison conditions and incarcerated people’s well-being.

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Section: The (Missing) Politics Of Prisoners' Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patchwork Protection: The Politics of Prisoners’ Rights Accountability in the United States

Schoenfeld,

Rhoten,

Campbell

2024

Law Soc. Inq.

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“…Naročito se problematičnim ističe mogućnost postupanja prema počinitelju zbog budućeg kaznenog djela koje bi tek mogao počiniti, a ne samo temeljem već počinjenog djela (Silver i Miller, 2002). Sve navedeno smatra se naročito zabrinjavajućim sa stajališta temeljnih ljudskih prava i sloboda (Whitty, 2007). Bullock (2010) naglašava i da se aktuarnom pravdom naglasak isključivo stavlja na individualne čimbenike, odgovornost i krivnju bez razmatranja socijalnih čimbenika i odgovornosti društva i države za kriminal.…”

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Postupanje s opasnim počiniteljima kaznenih djela nakon punog izvršenja kazne zatvora

Maloić

2021

Kriminol. soc. integr. (Online)

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U radu se razmatraju mogući načini postupanja s opasnim punoljetnim počiniteljima kaznenih djela nakon punog izvršenja kazne zatvora, odnosno mjera koje se u svijetu izvršavaju prema tim počiniteljima, temeljem procjene visokog rizika ponovnoga počinjenja teškoga kaznenog djela i nanošenja ozbiljne štete budućim žrtvama. Radi se o vrlo kontroverznoj temi koja izaziva mnoge rasprave, a koja u Hrvatskoj postaje aktualnom uvođenjem sigurnosne mjere zaštitnog nadzora nakon punog izvršenja kazne zatvora. Cilj je rada upozoriti na nužnost jasne i učinkovite nacionalne zakonske regulative vezane uz tu mjeru te na potrebu primjene i izvršavanja u skladu s europskim preporukama i suvremenim spoznajama. U radu su analizirane europske preporuke, neka inozemna iskustva, izazovi i dileme povezani s tim mjerama te specifični izazovi povezani s procjenom rizika i upravljanjem rizikom. Uz kritičku analizu aktualnih izazova i dilema u hrvatskom kontekstu, zaključno se nude specifične preporuke za hrvatski kaznenopravni sustav i praksu.

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“…Gelsthorpe (2007) returns to this theme and explores the role that human rights can play in the context of probation values, noting some difficulties but concluding that ‘a human rights approach incorporates values of equality, respect for diversity and concern for community, victims and offenders’ (2007: 503). The complex relationship between public protection and human rights is explored in detail by Whitty (2007), who uses the difficult case of Anthony Rice to examine the narratives around rights and risk that are used by different professionals and by the media, and concludes that ‘the political controversy over “human rights” in the Rice case reveals the extent to which the HRA 1998 can have both practical and symbolic effects on risk assessment and management’ (2007: 211).…”

Section: Human Rights Issues In Community Supervisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A human rights-based approach to community justice: Adding value to desistance focused practice

Cross¹

2017

European Journal of Probation

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The article explores what is meant by a human rights-based approach to supervision and how such an approach can converge with desistance focused practice in order to impact on its effectiveness. Placing the discussion in the wider context of human rights developments in social services and of desistance focused approaches to effective supervision in the community, I explore the extent to which a human rights approach can add legitimacy to a desistance approach, identifying common themes between the approaches that would support this case. My findings support the contention that a human rights-based approach to supervision can add value to practice that supports desistance from crime.

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Risk, Human Rights and the Management of a Serious Sex Offender

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Patchwork Protection: The Politics of Prisoners’ Rights Accountability in the United States

Patchwork Protection: The Politics of Prisoners’ Rights Accountability in the United States

Postupanje s opasnim počiniteljima kaznenih djela nakon punog izvršenja kazne zatvora

A human rights-based approach to community justice: Adding value to desistance focused practice

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