lecture 1 - garlands culture of control Flashcards

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when was penal welfarism most prominent?

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early 1800s to 1970s

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what are they key themes in garlands chapter ‘a history of the present’?

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  1. penal welfarism
  2. transformation to a ‘culture of control’
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key themes in penal welfarism (1800s to 1970s)?

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  • rehabilitation of offenders the core principle of penal system
  • political consensus
  • the role of penal experts
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what underpinned penal welfarism?

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  • low crime rates
  • community cohesion
  • full employment
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what was the role of penal experts in penal welfarism instead of? 1800s-1970s

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the role of penal experts rather than politicians of the public

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key themes in the transformation to a ‘culture of control’?

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  • high levels of crime and insecurity
  • loss of faith in penal experts and rehabilitation
  • a policy predicament
  • paradoxical/ contrasting responses of populism and managerialism
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what underpinned the transformation to a culture of control?

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  • all underpinned by a shift in deeper social/ economic structures and cultural sensibilities about crime and punishment
  • high crime rates
  • community breakdown
  • individualism
  • unemployment
  • inequality
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when was the era of penal welfarism?

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1945-1970

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what were the key characteristiccs of the era of penal welfarism?

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  • the rehabilitative ideal as core principle of the penal system
  • faith in criminal justice experts
  • limited influence for politicians and public opinion on penal policy
  • political consensus on crime and punishment
  • general belief in the efficacy of state crime control
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what are the 3 foundational conditions of penal welfarism?

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  • political-economic conditions
  • social conditions
  • theoretical conditions (dominant ways of thinking about crime)
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what are the political-economic conditions of penal welfarism?

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  • welfare-capitalism
  • economic management and social policy to attack major problems of inequality (poverty, bad health, poor education, poor housing etc)
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what is welfare capitalism?

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is a business favoured policy that believes the private sector can provide social welfare programs more effectively than the federal government

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social conditions for penal welfarism?

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-stable/ falling crime rates
- full employment
- stable family structures
- cohesive communities
- informal social controls

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what are the theoretical conditions for penal welfarism?

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  • positivist theories of crime causation
    e.g.
  • strain theory
  • social disorganisation theory
  • psychological theories
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what is garlands first indices of change?

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the decline of the rehabilitative ideal

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what is g second indices of change?

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the re-emmergence of punitive sanctions and expressive justice

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what is g third indices of change?

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changes in the emotional tone of crime policy

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what is g fourth indices of change?

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focusing on the victim

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what is g fifth indices of change?

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above all the public must be protected

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what is g sixth indices of change?

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politicisation and populism

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what is g seventh indices of change?

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the reinvention of the prison

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what is g eighth indices of change?

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the transformation of criminological thought

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what is g ninth indices of change?

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the expanding infrastructure of crime prevention and community safety

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what is g 10th indices of change?

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civil society and the commercialisation of crime control

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what is g eleventh indices of change?

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new management styles and working practices

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what is g 12th indices of change?

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a perpetual sense of crisis

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what were the political conditions in garlands culture of control?

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the attack on welfare capitalism
- neoliberalism and the new right
- conservative dominance and reinvention of the left
- economic liberalism
- moral authoritarianism
- the politicisation of crime and punishment
- the role of the mass media

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what is neoliberalism? what is it contemporarily used to refer to?

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market-oriented reform policies such as “eliminating price controls
deregulating capital markets
lowering trade barriers
and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.

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what is economic liberalism?

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based on principles of personal liberty, private property and limited government interference

30
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what were the social conditions in new culture of control?

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  • unemployment and economic recession
  • changes in family structures
  • social and spatial mobility: the eroding of community
  • new middle class insecurity
  • rapidly rising crime rates
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what theoretical conditions underpinned the new culture of control?

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  • the aetiological crisis - nothing works
  • criminologies of everyday life - risk management and rational choice theories
  • criminologies of the other - the dangerous other
32
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what are the policy predicaments in crime control?

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  • high crime rates as a normal social fact
  • the limits of the criminal justice state and the myth of sovereign crime control
  • the public demand/ expect the state to ensure crime control/ security but the state cannot deliver
33
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what 3 adaptive ideologies for crime control?

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  • accept that the war on crime is unwinnable, crime is an inevitable feature of contemporary life
  • treat crime as an everyday risk to be managed, rather than an enemy to be defeated
  • develop pragmatic instrumental approaches to manage/ reduce crime in more efficient and less costly ways
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features of adaptation

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  • professionalisation and the rationalisation of criminal justice
  • the commercialisation of justice
  • defining deviance down
  • redefining success
  • concentrate upon consequences
  • relocating and redefining responsibilities
35
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what is the professionalisation and rationalisation of justice referring to

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rise of technology
systemisation and rationalisation of criminal justice

36
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what is the commercialisation of justice ?

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  • managerialism - cjs to be more business like
  • privatisation
37
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what is redefining success?

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from outcomes to outputs - an economy of efficiency

38
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what is concentrating upon consequences?

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  • fear of crime
  • customer satisfaction
39
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what is relocating and redefining responsibilities?

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  • responsibilisation below, beyond and above
  • steering but not rowing
40
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what is punitive control strategies?

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  • respond to predicament by denying it - especially politicians
  • reactivate and embrace the myth of sovereign state crime control
  • engage in emotional rituals of condemnation and punishment - ‘acting out’
41
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what 2 features of punitive control are there?

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  1. expressive responses
  2. punitive segregation
42
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what are expressive responses in punitive control?

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  • denying the myth (of limits to the sovereign power to control crime)
  • restoring faith in cjs
  • tough political rhetoric and soundbites and emotional tone
    -crime and punishment as a key political battleground
  • privileging of public opinion
43
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what is punitive segregation?

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  • greater use of custody overall
  • longer sentences/ indeterminate sentences
  • focus on incapacitation of dangerous and / or repeat offenders
  • mass incarceration