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Book SynopsisIn many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common sanctions used in the punishment of criminalized individuals. Despite the widespread use of community-based penalties, these forms of penalization or punishment remain a less studied feature of punishment research today.
Punishment, Probation and Parole maps this lacuna in knowledge and scholarship while charting a path to fill it. Bringing together a series of key conceptual papers by leading scholars, the chapters explore the various dimensions and forms of community-based penalties as they are constructed and experienced in different times and places, producing different socio-penal effects. Addressing pressing debates and emerging concepts, this much-needed collection serves to chart directions for future researchers to explore in the field of community-based penalties.
Trade ReviewBuilding off McNeill's (2018) Pervasive Punishment, this new edited volume asks how we "make sense" of mass supervision across time and place. The volume brings together some of the most thoughtful scholars working on community sanctions in Europe, the U.S. and less-well studied countries including Chile and Australia, and elsewhere, asking what purposes sanctions like probation and parole serve in the name of justice and how such supervision is experienced by individuals, families and communities. Each chapter brings us a new location and focus, showing the complex and contradictory forces and experiences of community sanctions. And yet across all this diversity is a sense that community sanctions have strayed from their original purposes, growing more punitive and managerial. Taken together, the volume powerfully asks us to consider whether mass supervision itself can ever be rehabilitated away from punishment.
-- Michelle S. Phelps, Associate Professor and Martindale Endowed Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, USA
It is increasingly recognized that punishment in the community is no longer the humanising and rehabilitative undertaking as was initially intended. Based on insights from nine different countries around the globe, this book identifies common trends of managerialism and massification. Starting from a deepening and critical understanding of McNeill’s concept of mass supervision and taking a decolonizing perspective into account, this book offers an excellent and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on community punishment.
-- Kristel Beyens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Punishment, Probation and Parole: Introduction; Fergus McNeill, Katharina Maier, and Rosemary Ricciardelli
Chapter 2. Putting the ‘Mass’ in ‘Mass Supervision’: A Conceptual Analysis; David J. Hayes
Chapter 3. The Loss of Meaning in Mass McProbation and McRe-entry; Martine Herzog-Evans
Chapter 4. The Changing Role of Community Sanctions in Norway; John Todd-Kvam
Chapter 5. (Un)making Penal Electronic Monitoring Policy in Scotland; Ryan Casey
Chapter 6. How Has the Weight of Supervision Changed in Romania in the Last Decade?; Ioan Durnescu and Andrada Istrate
Chapter 7. ‘That’s not who I am’: Misrecognition, Refusal, and Accommodation Within Parole; Robert Werth
Chapter 8. Mass Supervision in the South: 10 Years of the Reform to Alternative Sanctions in Chile; Ana María Morales
Chapter 9. ‘Secondary Supervision’ in Canada: A Qualitative Examination of How Probationers’ Loved Ones Understand Community Supervision; Katharina Maier, Michael Weinrath, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and Gillan Foley
Chapter 10. Community Sanctions in Australia: Engaging State Level Variations and Developing Indigenous Governance; David Brown
Chapter 11. Punishment, Probation and Parole: Conclusion; Fergus McNeill, Katharina Maier, and Rosemary Ricciardelli
