Publication

cjm 89: The poverty of punishment

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Vincenzo Ruggiero guest edits a special focus on the debatable utility and visible dysfunctions of imprisonment.

Contributors include Joe Sim focusing on the authoritarian response to the August 2011 riots; Frances Crook reporting on punishing the young poor and Anthony Goodman's contention that, yet again, the future of probation is in doubt as privatisation beckons.

Topical subjects include 21st century cybercrimes, the role of private investigators in Australia and the workplace of war. Payment by results is the subject of the debating section.

In this edition

Working together to cut numbers in the criminal justice system

Tammy McGloughlin and Helen Mills introduce this issue of cjm

By Tammy McGloughlin and Helen Mills

Understanding 21st century cybercrime for the ‘common’ victim

Frances P Bernat and Nicholas Godlove argue that it is time to extend the principle of universal jurisdiction to the typical types of cyber-offences

By Frances P Bernat and Nicholas Godlove

The workplace of war: unlimited liability or safety crimes?

Ross McGarry highlights British military deaths and questions the commitment of the government to adequately protect the armed forces within war as a ‘workplace’

By Ross McGarry

Looking beyond the ‘rural idyll’: some recent trends in rural crime

Jane Jones describes recent trends in the theft of livestock and agricultural machinery in the countryside

By Jane Jones

Private policing

Mark Brunger considers the recent proposals to outsource elements of frontline policing to private providers

By Mark Brunger

The contemporary role of private investigators in Australia

Michael King looks at the licensing and industry reforms that have shaped the modern private investigator

By Michael King

Targeting, labelling and stigma: challenging the criminalisation of children and young people

Sean Creaney reports on how children involved in youth justice processes are unable to overcome the negative ‘outsider’ label attached them

By Sean Creaney

The poverty of punishment

Vincenzo Ruggiero introduces the contributions to the themed section

By Vincenzo Ruggiero

Carceral social zones

Vincenzo Ruggiero considers a theoretical mapping of the functions of imprisonment

By Vincenzo Ruggiero

Delivering pain in the Big Society

Mick Ryan on making sense of changes in the penal system in the context of David Cameron’s political mantra

By Mick Ryan

Punishing the young poor

Frances Crook considers state punishment of young people

By Frances Crook

‘Shock and Awe’: judicial responses to the riots

Joe Sim focuses on the authoritarian response to the August 2011 disturbances

By Joe Sim

Back to the future: notions of punishment and resettling offenders in the community

Anthony Goodman contends that yet again, the future of probation is in doubt as privatisation beckons

By Anthony Goodman

Framing blame and punishment: former politically motivated prisoners in post-conflict Northern Ireland

Ruth Jamieson looks at the way in which prisoners and victims have been treated in a post-conflict society

By Ruth Jamieson

Theatre states: probing the politics of arts-in-prisons programmes

Leonidas K Cheliotis focuses on the proliferation of arts-in-prisons programmes and questions the extent to which they have a positive function

By Leonidas K Cheliotis

Take a picture, tell a story

Anthony Goodman provides a commentary to the photographs by Robert Gumpert

By Anthony Goodman

The punitive regulation of poverty in the neoliberal age

Loïc Wacquant diagnoses the resurgence of the prison in advanced societies

By Loïc Wacquant

Harm audit: the collateral damage of economic crisis and the Coalition’s austerity programme

Christina Pantazis and Simon Pemberton present their findings on the nature and extent of harms in society

By Christina Pantazis and Simon Pemberton

Payment by results

Bill Puddicombe, Dan Corry, Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson debate the merits and disadvantages of payment by results

By Bill Puddicombe, Dan Corry, Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson