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Public Protection, Partnership and Risk Penality: The Multi-Agency Risk Management of Sexual and Violent Offenders
Hazel Kemshall,Mike Maguire +1 more
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This article used empirical research on the implementation of risk assessment and risk management procedures by public protection panels in England and Wales, to assess how far the evidence supports claims of a broad shift in modes of crime control from penal modernism towards a new risk penality characteristic of the late (or post-) modern period.Abstract:
This article uses empirical research on the implementation of risk assessment and risk management procedures by public protection panels in England and Wales, to assess how far the evidence supports claims of a broad shift in modes of crime control from penal modernism towards a new `risk penality' characteristic of the late (or post-) modern period. The result is a mixed and contradictory picture, in which the dominant discourse around measures to deal with sexual and `dangerous' offenders is in tune with this claim, but there are numerous aspects of agency culture and practice - for example, interest in the individual case, and the valuing of professional judgement above actuarial tools - which reflect the continuing strength of the `modernist' project. There are, however, signs of a growing populist challenge to the modernist assumption that risk knowledge and management should be left to small groups of `experts' working in secret. Overall, perhaps the strongest evidence of a shift towards new penal forms lies in (a) the emergence of new forms of partnership, driven by the `logic of risk', and (b) the significant dispersal of accountability which has accompanied their development.read more
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The Efficacy of Violence Prediction: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Nine Risk Assessment Tools.
TL;DR: The moderate level of predictive accuracy of these risk assessment tools suggests that they should not be used solely for some criminal justice decision making that requires a very high level of accuracy such as preventive detention.
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Criminogenic needs and the transformative risk subject: Hybridizations of risk/need in penality
TL;DR: The authors examines the discrepancies between theories of risk and penality and emergent strategies of risk/need identification and management and concludes that the divergence between theories and strategies can be traced back to the emergence of risk management strategies.
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Assembling Risk and the Restructuring of Penal Control
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw attention to new assemblages with risk in order to highlight the multiple forms of knowledge and logics at work in new risk assessment practices, such as rehabilitation and clinical assessments.
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Understanding risk in criminal justice
TL;DR: The role of risk in criminal justice practice and policy is explored in this article, which is a key text on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and is routinely cited in other works including leading journal articles.
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How Iron is the Iron Cage of New Penology? The Role of Human Agency in the Implementation of Criminal Justice Policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the extent to which the concept of "new penology" is helpful in understanding penal currents, particularly as they relate to the older paradigms of retribution and rehabilitation.
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The New Penology : Notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications
Malcolm M Feeley,Jonathan Simon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that an important new language of penology is emerging, which shifts focus away from the traditional concerns of the criminal law and criminology, which have focused on the individual, and redirects it to actuarial consideration of aggregates.
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Government and Control
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the complexity of crime control and suggest that, despite the apparent diversity of these conceptions, some at least can be understood as infractions of freedom, that is to say, as problematic because they throw into question the very presuppositions of moralconsciousness, self-control and self-advancement through legitimate consumption upon whichgovernmental regimes of freedom depend.
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R. Karl Hanson,David Thornton +1 more
TL;DR: The study compared the predictive accuracy of three sex offender risk-assessment measures: the RRASOR, Thornton's SACJ-Min, and a new scale, Static-99, created by combining the items from the RR as well as the combination of the two scales, and found the combination was more accurate than either original scale.
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Waste Managers? the New Penology, Crime Fighting, and Parole Agent Identity
TL;DR: Feeley and Simon as discussed by the authors conducted an ethnographic study in a parole field office in central California and found that agents embrace a traditional law enforcement role for themselves that primarily takes an individualistic approach to the clientele and an intuitive approach to their management, rather than taking on the new role of actuarial risk managers defined by upper management.