The Penal Voluntary Sector Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice Series
Auteur : Tomczak Philippa
Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize
The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector has featured significantly in both policy rhetoric and academic commentary. Penal voluntary organisations are increasingly delivering prison and probation services under contract, and this role is set to expand. However, the diverse voluntary organisations which comprise the sector, their varied relationships with statutory agencies and the effects of such work remain very poorly understood.
This book provides a wide-ranging and rigorous examination of this policy-relevant but complex and little studied area. It explores what voluntary organisations are doing with prisoners and probationers, how they manage to undertake their work, and the effects of charitable work with prisoners and probationers. The author uses original empirical research and an innovative application of actor-network theory to enable a step change in our understanding of this increasingly significant sector, and develops the policy-centric accounts produced in the last decade to illustrate how voluntary organisations can mediate the experiences of imprisonment and probation at the micro and macro levels.
Demonstrating how the legacy of philanthropic work and neoliberal policy reforms over the past thirty years have created a complex three-tier penal voluntary sector of diverse organisations, this cutting-edge interdisciplinary text will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists of work and industry, and those engaged in the voluntary sector.
1. The Penal Voluntary Sector
2. Punishment and Charity: Historical and Contemporary Context
3. Actor-Network Theory and Its Application
4. Mapping a Loose and Baggy Monster: Scoping the Sector
5. Charitable Innovations in Punishment
6. (In)Voluntary Control
7. The Effects of Charitable Work
8. Conclusions: Punishment and Charity in a Neoliberal Age
Philippa Tomczak is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Criminological Research. She previously studied Criminology and Geography at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She is interested in punishment, particularly the regulation of prison suicide, the penal voluntary sector, and actor-network theory.
Date de parution : 02-2018
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Statutory Criminal Justice Agencies; Charity; Penal Voluntary Sector; Penal Reform; Voluntary Organisations; Penal monitoring; Penal Voluntary Organisations; Sociology of Punishment; Penal Services; Third Sector; Prison Reform Trust; Charitable Work; Generalised Symmetry; Penal Voluntary; Smaller Voluntary Organisations; HMP Peterborough; St Giles Trust; Short Sentence Prisoners; Carceral Net; Hm Prison Service; Charitable Involvement; Community Rehabilitation Companies; Pop; Carceral Power; Charitable Programmes; Market Policy Reforms; Smaller Charities; National Probation Service; St Brieuc Bay; Revolving Doors Agency