Lecture 5: Prison Reform Flashcards
What was Foucault interested in regarding the transition from corporal punishment to imprisonment?
The greater efficiency achieved
How did prisons exert control and power over prisoners according to Foucault?
Constant surveillance
Foucalt discipline and punish was concerned with monumental shift that occurred between what 2 penal styles?
- Corporal punishment
- Imprisonment
What was the purpose of constant surveillance of prisoners according to Foucault?
To make coercion less needed
What practical impact did Foucault’s work have regarding imprisonment?
Checking overly optimistic views of reformists
What did Mathiesen conclude about prisons’ ability to achieve their stated aims?
They fail completely across all aims
What reform agenda did the Woolf Report set out after the Strangeways riot?
Improving prison conditions and justice
The “prison works” view encourages which approaches?
More imprisonment
What did political rhetoric in the 1990s contradict regarding imprisonment?
Previous government evaluations
What prison architecture did Foucault retrieve from Jermemy Bentham?
The Panoptican
What overall shift has there been in rehabilitation rhetoric in recent years?
Growing support across political parties
What barriers exist to implementing rehabilitative reforms in practice?
Competing government priorities around austerity and Brexit
What is a key element of plans to build new ‘smart prisons’?
Drone defense systems
How are wider criminal justice reforms intended to improve rehabilitation?
Joining up prison and probation under unified systems
Foucault saw constant surveillance of prisoners as:
Making overt uses of violence redundant
Mathiesen highlighted prisons’:
Public support despite ineffectiveness
Key aims of building additional prison places include:
Reducing overcrowding
Unified prison and probation agencies aim to:
Improve rehabilitation
Foucault highlighted how prisons:
Exert control through surveillance and discipline
The Woolf Report was prompted by:
A prison riot
Political rhetoric in the 1990s:
Highlighted public safety above all
Rapid Deployment Cell schemes involve:
Modular cell blocks
Smart prison designs provide:
In-cell tablets for offenders
The latest white paper prison strategy focuses especially on:
Improving literacy and employment
Foucault’s analysis suggested prisons:
Made overt uses of violence redundant
Political rhetoric shifted from “prison works” to emphasizing:
Rehabilitation
Rapid Deployment Cells provide:
Standalone modular units
Recent prison reform white papers highlight:
Literacy, employment and rehabilitation
Mathiesen concluded prisons fail to:
Achieve their stated aims
The latest prison reforms intend to:
Improve rehabilitation behind bars
Foucault was especially interested in:
New forms of disciplinary power
Unified prison and probation agencies intend to:
Focus resources on rehabilitation
The main inspiration for panopticon prison architecture was:
School classrooms
Which 20th century theorist saw prisons as exerting disciplinary power over inmates through surveillance-based design?
Foucault
Rapid Development Cell schemes provide:
Modular standalone cell blocks to add capacity
Recent initiatives like HMP Five involve:
In-cell tablets to access rehabilitative content
Political rhetoric shifted over time from:
Punishment to rehabilitation
Under plans like HMP Five, through-the-gate support involves:
Fixed quotas to employ ex-offenders post-release
Which 20th century social theorist analyzed disciplinary power regimes?
Foucault
The latest strategy intends prisons to:
Support drug abuse recovery
Unified prison and probation agencies aim towards:
Focusing resources on rehabilitation
MP Five has quotas to employ:
Ex-offenders in any role post-release
Inspections of HMP Wells found results were:
Mixed
Foucault’s historical study suggested prisons:
Made overt uses of violence unnecessary
David Cameron’s 2016 speech called for:
Rehabilitative reform
The latest white paper focuses especially on improvements in:
Literacy and employability behind bars
HMP Five involves quotas to employ ex-offenders:
In any role post-release
Plans for unified prison and probation agencies intend to:
Focus resources on rehabilitation
Continued use of prisons is explained by:
Public demands for punishment
Prison reform agendas frequently fail to translate into tangible changes because of:
Competing political priorities
What is the function of prisons?
To keep an eye on and correct behaviours deemed to be counter-productive
What are examples of political rhetoric?
- Prison is a fiasco
- Prison works
- The rehabilitation revolution
Why is prison a fiasco?
- Ineffective at meeting it stated standards
- Its ability to prevent future crimes through deterring and rehab of individuals
What does prison works encourage?
Build more prisons and make them harsher
What 3 things does the rehabilitation revolution argue for need to reshape (RRD)?
- Rehabilitation
- Resettlement
- Desistance
3 examples of the tough on crime, law and order matra:
- Tougher sentences
- Harsher prison conditions
- Secure containment
What replaced the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) 2004?
Her Majesty’s Prison and probation service in 2017 - to improve reintegration of prisoners
