Rehabilitation as rhetoric  

Oleh:

Lynch, Mona

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Punishment and Society vol. 2 no. 1 (Jan. 2000), page 40-65.
Topik: parole . punishment . rehabilitation
Fulltext: 40PS21.pdf (247.35KB)

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This article reports on a set of findings from an ethnographic research project conducted in a parole field office in central California, specifically addressing how the notion of rehabilitation is expressed in parole discourse and practices. It appears that while the agency (and its field agents) still espouse the validity of normalization and reformative goals in this arm of corrections, the resources and commitment to carry out those aims are in short supply. Consequently, agency actors appear to have constructed the parolee subject as one who is dispositionally ¯awed, and who is ultimately responsible for his own improvement. The findings are discussed in relation to Simon's (1993) analysis of the agency's struggle to construct a plausible account of parole's purpose in the face of shifting structural, political, and institutional demands.

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