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Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against UncertaintyRe-examining Risk and Blame in Penal Controversies: Parole in England and Wales, 2013–2018

Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty: Re-examining Risk and Blame in Penal... [This chapter considers the lessons that high-profile controversies in parole in England and Wales might provide for our understanding of dominant conceptions of risk and populism in the sociology of punishment. Sparks’ (Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. Routledge, London, 2000) earlier examination of risk and blame in a series of scandals facing English prisons in the mid-1990s is utilized as a point of comparison and a methodological sensitizing device: the former in that this provides us with a means by which to consider what might have changed in the two decades separating these high-profile episodes; the latter in that I seek, as Sparks did, to consider what insights these ‘sorry stories’ might provide for penal theory. I thus discuss broader cultural trends regarding the recognition and involvement of ‘publics’—including victims, families, prisoners and others—in penal policy. I suggest that these developments have implications for our understanding of risk and populism, and the dominant theoretical narratives that have tended to accompany conceptions of these terms.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against UncertaintyRe-examining Risk and Blame in Penal Controversies: Parole in England and Wales, 2013–2018

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society Book Series
Editors: Pratt, John; Anderson, Jordan
Annison, Harry
Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty — Mar 18, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
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978-3-030-37947-6
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139 –163
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37948-3_7
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[This chapter considers the lessons that high-profile controversies in parole in England and Wales might provide for our understanding of dominant conceptions of risk and populism in the sociology of punishment. Sparks’ (Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. Routledge, London, 2000) earlier examination of risk and blame in a series of scandals facing English prisons in the mid-1990s is utilized as a point of comparison and a methodological sensitizing device: the former in that this provides us with a means by which to consider what might have changed in the two decades separating these high-profile episodes; the latter in that I seek, as Sparks did, to consider what insights these ‘sorry stories’ might provide for penal theory. I thus discuss broader cultural trends regarding the recognition and involvement of ‘publics’—including victims, families, prisoners and others—in penal policy. I suggest that these developments have implications for our understanding of risk and populism, and the dominant theoretical narratives that have tended to accompany conceptions of these terms.]

Published: Mar 18, 2020

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