‘It’s Kinda Punishment’: Tandem Logics and Penultimate Power in the Penal Voluntary Sector for Canadian Youth

This paper draws on original empirical research in Ontario, Canada which analyses penal voluntary sector practice with youth in conflict with the law. I illustrate how youth penal voluntary sector practice (YPVS) operates alongside, or in tandem with the statutory criminal justice system. I argue that examining the PVS and the statutory criminal justice system simultaneously, or in tandem, provides fuller understandings of PVS inclusionary (and exclusionary) control practices (Tomczak and Thompson 2017). I introduce the concept of penultimate power, which demonstrates the ability of PVS workers to trigger criminal justice system response toward a young person in conflict with the law. My novel concepts of tandem logics and penultimate power are useful for understanding PVS practice, explaining how seemingly contradictory approaches across state and ‘community’ organizations not only co-exist, but depend upon the tandem relationship between the PVS and the statutory criminal justice system

A Psychological Exegesis of Job through Conceptualizations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury

This paper proposes that the results of a psychological exegesis of Job through a lens of current conceptualizations of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and moral injury (MI), and based on evidence of his behaviour, may be leveraged to: 1) enhance the scholarly understanding of the impact of trauma on Job; 2) inform pastoral care of people who live with the same psychological condition(s) as Job; and 3) contribute to discourse on the relevance, applicability and limitations of psychological exegesis. This paper will overview the historical and recent utilization of psychological exegesis, including its anticipated benefits and relevance, and how concerns about its methodology have been mitigated by modern scholars; provide conceptual definitions of PTSD and MI, as the ‘lens’ through which to conduct a psychological exegesis of Job; briefly describe an existing psychological exegetical framework, and how it was leveraged; and summarize psychological exegetical findings of Job and their implications

Psy-knowledges and the sociology of law: the case of juvenile justice

This article examines the application of the psy-sciences to the conduct of juvenile justice in Victoria in the period from 1940-1980, in order to reassess assumptions in contemporary sociology of law concerning psy-knowledge and judicial administration, welfare and justice, and their relations to liberal or conservative political mandates. It seeks to understand the implications of shifts in the production of knowledge of the child in the justice system, by reporting on analysis of both clinical and administrative files of the Children’s Court Clinic in this period. The study documents how particular kinds of offenders became know in order to be properly managed, and questions the extent of separations between science and juvenile justice administration

Comparing the governance of safety in Europe: a geo-historical approach

The concept of governance alerts us to the exercise of political authority beyond the nation state. In criminological thought governance has been associated with the preventive turn in crime control strategies in Europe that acknowledge the limits of criminal justice, invoke the direct participation of other statutory as well as commercial and voluntary sector actors and, in so doing, generate new objects and places of control signified by notions of 'safety' and 'security'. The corollary of this preventive turn is a geo-historical approach to comparative criminology that is capable of recognizing the diverse contexts that constitute new governable places and objects

Policing indigenous peoples on two colonial Frontiers: Australia's mounted police and Canada's North-West Mounted Police

This article examines the ways in which colonial policing and punishment of Indigenous peoples evolved as an inherent part of the colonial state-building process on the connected 19th century frontiers of south-central Australia and western Canada. Although there has been some excellent historical scholarship on the relationship between Indigenous people, police and the law in colonial settings, there has been little comparative analysis of the broader, cross-national patterns by which Indigenous peoples were made subject to British law, most especially through colonial policing practices. This article compares the roles, as well as the historical reputations, of Australia's mounted police and Canada's North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in order to argue that these British colonies, being within the ambit of the law as British subjects did not accord Indigenous peoples the rights of protection that status was intended to impart.Amanda Nettelbeck and Russell Smandyc

Beyond Liberty, Beyond Security: The Politics of Public Surveillance

This paper examines the expansion of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras across the UK. In doing so it argues that the often-repeated dichotomy of 'security vs liberty' is an insufficient way of understanding the issue. In attempting to develop an overall appreciation of the growth of CCTV in Britain, this paper first looks towards its stated aims of reducing crime and terrorism. Finding the impact of CCTV on these phenomena as far from certain while also noting the lack of methodologically sound evidence to justify any claims of effectiveness, this paper identifies the wider political context surrounding the creation of crime-control policy during the New Labour administration as developing a context that elevates the likelihood that CCTV will become favoured over the assortment of available crime reduction strategies. In conclusion, the potential for CCTV to have a wider impact beyond simple dichotomies of liberty and security - such as the additional social costs of mass surveillance and the diversion of much-needed public funds - will be addressed. © 2008 Palgrave Macmillan Ltd