The Thrill of the Chase: Punishment, Hostility and the Prison Crisis

Chamberlen, Anastasia; Carvalho, Henrique

doi:10.1177/0964663918759820

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“…Each of the settings under analysis (re)produces specific prevailing anxieties that appear constitutive of contemporary society and identity, at the same time as they heighten such anxieties by giving them a sense of emergency and exceptionality. They are 'crises' that have become normalised, so that they have to be permanently managed without any real hopes of being concretely resolved (on the links between crisis and hostility, see Chamberlen and Carvalho 2019b). As such, these anxieties encourage neurotic forms of subjectivity that are constantly concerned with risks and dangers.…”

Section: Mapping Punitiveness Today: Three Intersecting Casesmentioning

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Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice: Punishable and Punitive Subjects in an Era of Prevention, Anti-Migration and Austerity

Carvalho

Chamberlen

Lewis

2019

The British Journal of Criminology

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This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in criminological scholarship, and then draws on three contemporary case studies to investigate how the political deployment of anxieties and hostilities around the ‘crises’ of prevention, anti-migration and austerity reveal and reproduce punitive logics. It then outlines an original conceptual framework to argue that punitiveness ultimately revolves around the construction of, and dynamics between, punitive and punishable subjects.

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Section: Mapping Punitiveness Today: Three Intersecting Casesmentioning

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Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice: Punishable and Punitive Subjects in an Era of Prevention, Anti-Migration and Austerity

Carvalho

Chamberlen

Lewis

2019

The British Journal of Criminology

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“…Despite recent attempts at rehabilitative reform, prisons continue to rely heavily on punitive strategies to address problematic behavior (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 2020). While this might be expected given societal views of prisons as being foremost a place of punishment (Chamberlen & Carvalho, 2019), such approaches fail to address reinforcement contingencies that may be maintaining problematic behavior or teaching expected behaviors (Apel & Diller, 2017). Worse, punitive strategies have not been found to be effective in preventing recidivism (MacKenzie & Farrington, 2015), arguably the primary purpose of prison sentencing.…”

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Finding Common Ground: Using Focus Groups to Define Values Among Prisoners and Staff

Seel,

Holloway,

Angelakis

et al. 2023

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions

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Positive effects of Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) frameworks have been reported in juvenile justice facilities but have not yet been extended to adult prisons. As part of initial PBIS development in a large prison in the United Kingdom, this study utilized focus groups to investigate the valued outcomes considered most important to prison officers and prisoners. We found that although prisoners and staff largely shared the same values, there were meaningful differences in their relative priorities, reflecting the disparate roles that each play in the functioning of the prison. Focus groups also revealed possible contextual barriers to PBIS implementation in this setting. We conclude that input from both parties is essential in designing values-based support strategies that are aligned across key stakeholders. We discuss how focus groups might inform PBIS intervention planning and how our findings point to specific research gaps in applying PBIS in adult prisons.

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