Jeff Pratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 78692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Pratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Pratt |
| SIGNATURE | PRATT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4122-3430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 333 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The pandemic as an antidote to populism
The contemporary rise of populism across much of Western society – especially the Anglosphere countries that are the main focus of this article – has threatened many of the protections and freedoms provided by the post-1945 commitment to a democratic political order: guarantees of human rights, adherence to the rule of law, and a media that is free to criticise governments and hold them to account. Populism has also come to be associated with a v…
Criminal justice in an age of populism
The rise of populism, as a by-product of neoliberal policies in Western democratic societies, became a hallmark feature of the supposed end-of-history era and post-cold-war order. Surprisingly, that shift was also evidenced in post-communist “new” democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. The field of criminal justice became one of the core areas of populist discourse. Penal populism indeed became a way to address concerns and fears that emerged…
Populism vs Covid-19. Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes in a Time of Global Catastrophe
What constitutes a "civilized society"? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as one that has reached "an advanced stage of human development in which people [...] behave well towards each other and share a common culture." Yes, but there is more to "being civilized" than this. Based on Norbert Elias' The Civilizing Process, this paper examines how the rise of populism in leading Anglo-American societies has undermined many of the essential attributes…
Law, Insecurity and Risk Control
Rationality of Rural Life
The end of penal populism
Penal populism has radically reshaped and reorganised many aspects of punishment in modern society. It has also shifted the emphasis from protecting the rights of individuals from excessive use of the state’s power to punish to using those powers to protect the public from individuals thought to put them at risk. In so doing, it has acted as a kind of dam, holding back the anxieties and uncertainties unleashed by the neo-liberal restructuring of …
Are Street-Level Bureaucrats in China Hardnosed Cops or Consultants? An Institutional Account of Policing Behavior in Autocracy
Chengguan (城管) is part of the stability maintenance regime specializing in civil law enforcement in China. Many protests today have occurred in reaction to Chengguan harsh enforcement rather than police action. Using survey data (n = 1,721) from China, the authors found both severity and leniency in Chengguan law enforcement. The authors also found that Chengguan enforcement styles are largely conciliatory rather than legalistic, and that Chenggu…
Risk Control, Rights and Legitimacy in the Limited Liability State
Although controlling risk has become a prevalent theme in contemporary penal development in the main English-speaking societies, the range and extent of these measures is limited and specific, indicative of new obligations and reciprocities between state and citizen following post-1980s restructuring. Individuals are exhorted to take care of themselves, but the state remains committed to managing risks thought beyond their control and likely to c…
El castigo emotivo y ostentoso. Su declinación y resurgimiento en la sociedad moderna
Inspector Wallander’s angst, social change and the reconfiguration of Swedish exceptionalism
This article examines the extent to which changes in Swedish values and culture are undermining what has come to be known as the penal exceptionalism of that society. It does this by contrasting the two very different pictures of Swedish society that are to be found in the detective novels of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, set in the 1960s and early 1970s, and those of Henning Mankell, set in the 1990s onwards. Notwithstanding the extensive social c…
Contrasts in Punishment
Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this book seeks to answer these questions. The book argues that the penal d…
Norbert Elias, the Civilizing Process and Penal Development in Modern Society
For much of the twentieth century the punishment of offenders in modern society came to be administered on a scientific, rational basis with policy driven largely by expert knowledge. The anonymity of the prison, as a place for reflection and rehabilitation, steadily replaced the pre-modern drama and spectacle of punishment to the human body. Recently, though, some modern societies (particularly those in the Anglophone world) have seen recourse t…
Values and Markets
This article sets out the overlapping political and cultural roots of an innovative farming co-operative in Andalusia, one composed of both ex-labourers and small farmers. One strand of values involves the realization of a food chain in which no capitalist enterprise can extract profit from their labours: this, together with various conceptions of personal and local autonomy, shapes much of their practice of organic farming. Nevertheless, their l…
Struggling for autonomy
This article records verbatim interviews with a small group of labourers who became pioneer organic farmers and formed a cooperative in rural Andalusia. Their voices provide acute insights into strategies to avoid economic exploitation, and the politics of autonomy which is characteristic of the left in this part of Spain
From Abusive Families to Internet Predators
This article traces the development, retraction and reconfiguration of the way in which sexual abuse has been understood as a social problem in Canada. It looks at the processes of its social construction and situates these within a theoretical framework derived from Ian Hacking's work on transient mental illness. It argues that sexual abuse was able to flourish as a social problem because of the 'ecological niche' constituted by the presence of …
Incorporation and Resistance
This article examines arguments about the relationship between mainstream agriculture and alternative food chains. It begins with a summary of Guthman's study of organic agriculture in California and her conclusion that it has come to resemble conventional, industrial agriculture in its agrarian structures and its supply chains. The article raises questions about both the evidence that smaller alternative producers have been squeezed out, and the…
Penal Populism
Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in contemporary penal policy. Penal populism is associated with the public's decline of deference to the criminal justice establishment amidst alarm that crime is out of control. Pratt argues that new media tec…
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
This is the fi rst of a two-part paper on penal exceptionalism in Scandinaviathat is, low rates of imprisonment and humane prison conditions. Part I examines the roots of this exceptionalism in Finland, Norway and Sweden, arguing that it emerges from the cultures of equality that existed in these countries which were then embedded in their social fabrics through the universalism of the Scandinavian welfare state
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
Part II of this paper examines the current for prospects for Scandinavian exceptionalism. It argues that Finland, Norway and Sweden have all experienced, to a degree, declines in earlier levels of social solidarity, security and homogeneity, jeopardizing the future of their low levels of imprisonment and humane prison conditions. These experiences have not, though, been uniform -Sweden is now most at risk, the other two less so. The paper goes on…
Food Values
■ Concern about the agro-industrial food system has generated movements that reconnect producers and consumers, either through alternative distribution networks, or through providing histories of each quality foodstuff. Although these movements share a romantic discourse, they have a range of objectives and a more complex relationship to the mainstream than first appears. The article analyses particularly the concept of authenticity, first in rep…
The Dark Side of Paradise
The Dark Side of Paradise: Explaining New Zealand's History of High Imprisonment Get access John Pratt John Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 4, July 2006, Pages 541–560, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi095 Published: 01 November 2005
Penal populism in New Zealand
This article examines the growth, influence and limits of penal populism in New Zealand. In this country, it argues, there were four crucial factors associated with this: disenchantment with the existing democratic process; the dynamics of crime and insecurity in a period of considerable social change; the growth and influence of ‘victimization groups’; the emergence of a new kind of penal expertise
Elias and modern penal development
Introduction Modern societies like to think of themselves as ‘civilized’. When they make this claim, it becomes a way of self-evidently distinguishing themselves from non-Western, uncivilized societies, which are then seen, given the teleological qualities that have now come to be associated with this concept, as being at a more primitive, less-advanced stage of social development. But what are the distinguishing features of a society that profes…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
Class, Nation and Identity
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
This is the fi rst of a two-part paper on penal exceptionalism in Scandinaviathat is, low rates of imprisonment and humane prison conditions. Part I examines the roots of this exceptionalism in Finland, Norway and Sweden, arguing that it emerges from the cultures of equality that existed in these countries which were then embedded in their social fabrics through the universalism of the Scandinavian welfare state
Food Values
■ Concern about the agro-industrial food system has generated movements that reconnect producers and consumers, either through alternative distribution networks, or through providing histories of each quality foodstuff. Although these movements share a romantic discourse, they have a range of objectives and a more complex relationship to the mainstream than first appears. The article analyses particularly the concept of authenticity, first in rep…
Emotive and Ostentatious Punishment
Over the course of the last decade or so, it has become increasingly apparent that modern penality is undergoing significant change. One aspect of this refiguring of the penal spectrum involves a growing recourse to what I refer to as emotive and ostentatious punishments of varying kinds - although this must be set against the enhanced continuity at the same time of a long-established trend towards bureaucratic rationalism in this area. The artic…
Penal populism in New Zealand
This article examines the growth, influence and limits of penal populism in New Zealand. In this country, it argues, there were four crucial factors associated with this: disenchantment with the existing democratic process; the dynamics of crime and insecurity in a period of considerable social change; the growth and influence of ‘victimization groups’; the emergence of a new kind of penal expertise
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
Part II of this paper examines the current for prospects for Scandinavian exceptionalism. It argues that Finland, Norway and Sweden have all experienced, to a degree, declines in earlier levels of social solidarity, security and homogeneity, jeopardizing the future of their low levels of imprisonment and humane prison conditions. These experiences have not, though, been uniform -Sweden is now most at risk, the other two less so. The paper goes on…
Norbert Elias and the civilized prison
This paper employs an Eliasian perspective to provide an historical overview to the contemporary crisis in British prisons. It argues that some of the roots of this crisis lie within the very attempts to bring prison development in line with the cultural values of modern society
Towards the 'Decivilizing' of Punishment
This article examines the cultural significance of some new 'signs and symbols' of punishment that are to be found taking place (albeit in uneven measure) across English-based jurisdictions at the present time. What I want to suggest is that these developments may be pointers to the emergence of a new penal culture, which makes possible a set of arrangements and strategies that are different from those which had been in the forefront of the moder…
The Return of the Wheelbarrow Men; or, the Arrival of Postmodern Penality
Journal Article The Return of the Wheelbarrow Men; or, the Arrival of Postmodern Penality? Get access John Pratt John Pratt Institute of Criminology, University of Wellington Victoria. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 127–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/40.1.127 Published: 01 January 2000
Norbert Elias, the Civilizing Process and Penal Development in Modern Society
For much of the twentieth century the punishment of offenders in modern society came to be administered on a scientific, rational basis with policy driven largely by expert knowledge. The anonymity of the prison, as a place for reflection and rehabilitation, steadily replaced the pre-modern drama and spectacle of punishment to the human body. Recently, though, some modern societies (particularly those in the Anglophone world) have seen recourse t…
Incorporation and Resistance
This article examines arguments about the relationship between mainstream agriculture and alternative food chains. It begins with a summary of Guthman's study of organic agriculture in California and her conclusion that it has come to resemble conventional, industrial agriculture in its agrarian structures and its supply chains. The article raises questions about both the evidence that smaller alternative producers have been squeezed out, and the…
The Rationality of Rural Life
This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in the rationality of farming, one which touches every aspect of the lives of rural people
Corporatism
Juvenile justice developments tend to be conceptualized and explained in terms of their accommodation within the respective parameters of the welfare and justice models. Historically, the welfare era in England and Wales reached its peak in the early 1970s. Since then, the justice model has assumed ideological dominance. However, the reality of juvenile justice policies and practices would seem to be more closely in line with a third model, that …
Values and Markets
This article sets out the overlapping political and cultural roots of an innovative farming co-operative in Andalusia, one composed of both ex-labourers and small farmers. One strand of values involves the realization of a food chain in which no capitalist enterprise can extract profit from their labours: this, together with various conceptions of personal and local autonomy, shapes much of their practice of organic farming. Nevertheless, their l…
The end of penal populism
Penal populism has radically reshaped and reorganised many aspects of punishment in modern society. It has also shifted the emphasis from protecting the rights of individuals from excessive use of the state’s power to punish to using those powers to protect the public from individuals thought to put them at risk. In so doing, it has acted as a kind of dam, holding back the anxieties and uncertainties unleashed by the neo-liberal restructuring of …
Are Street-Level Bureaucrats in China Hardnosed Cops or Consultants? An Institutional Account of Policing Behavior in Autocracy
Chengguan (城管) is part of the stability maintenance regime specializing in civil law enforcement in China. Many protests today have occurred in reaction to Chengguan harsh enforcement rather than police action. Using survey data (n = 1,721) from China, the authors found both severity and leniency in Chengguan law enforcement. The authors also found that Chengguan enforcement styles are largely conciliatory rather than legalistic, and that Chenggu…
El castigo emotivo y ostentoso. Su declinación y resurgimiento en la sociedad moderna
The rise and fall of homophobia and sexual psychopath legislation in postwar society
Populism vs Covid-19. Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes in a Time of Global Catastrophe
What constitutes a "civilized society"? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as one that has reached "an advanced stage of human development in which people [...] behave well towards each other and share a common culture." Yes, but there is more to "being civilized" than this. Based on Norbert Elias' The Civilizing Process, this paper examines how the rise of populism in leading Anglo-American societies has undermined many of the essential attributes…
Inspector Wallander’s angst, social change and the reconfiguration of Swedish exceptionalism
This article examines the extent to which changes in Swedish values and culture are undermining what has come to be known as the penal exceptionalism of that society. It does this by contrasting the two very different pictures of Swedish society that are to be found in the detective novels of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, set in the 1960s and early 1970s, and those of Henning Mankell, set in the 1990s onwards. Notwithstanding the extensive social c…
The Dark Side of Paradise
The Dark Side of Paradise: Explaining New Zealand's History of High Imprisonment Get access John Pratt John Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 4, July 2006, Pages 541–560, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi095 Published: 01 November 2005
Beyond `Gulags Western Style
Nils Christie in Crime Control as Industry has suggested that our spiralling prison populations, particularly in the United States, represent a move `towards gulags western style'. In much the same way that Zygmunt Bauman sees modernity itself as creating the possibility for the Holocaust, so for Christie the current `gulagization' of the West is not an aberration of modern society but is something that occurs naturally within it. While sympathet…
Governing the Dangerous
This Is Not a Prison
Foreign Mud, being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed
Journal Article Foreign Mud, being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed Get access Foreign Mud, being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. By Collis Maurice. 1946. (London: Faber and Faber. 83⁄4′′ × 51⁄2′′. 319 pp. Illus. Maps. 21s.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
From Abusive Families to Internet Predators
This article traces the development, retraction and reconfiguration of the way in which sexual abuse has been understood as a social problem in Canada. It looks at the processes of its social construction and situates these within a theoretical framework derived from Ian Hacking's work on transient mental illness. It argues that sexual abuse was able to flourish as a social problem because of the 'ecological niche' constituted by the presence of …
Propaganda From China and Japan
Journal Article Propaganda from China and Japan Get access 83. Propaganda From China and Japan. By Bruno Lasker Agnes Roman. 1938. (New York : American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations. 8vo. xiv + 120 pp. $1.50.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 18, Issue 2, March-April 1939, Pages 295–296, https://doi.org/10.2307/3019949 Published: 01 March…
The China of Chiang Kai-Shek. A Political Study and China Then and Now
The Fight for the Pacific, The United States and Japan's New Order and China Shail Rise Again
Journal Article The Fight for the Pacific, The United States and Japan's New Order and China Shail Rise Again Get access The Fight for the Pacific. By Mark L. Gayn. 1941. (London : John Lane. xii + 378 pp. 10s. 6d.)The United States and Japan's New Order. By William C. Johnstone. 1941. Revised Edition. (London: Oxford University Press. xii + 403 pp. $3.00.)China Shail Rise Again. By Madame Chiang Kai-shek. (London: Hurst and Blackett. xii + 256 p…
On Criticism of British Far Eastern Policy
Asia for the Asiatics. The Techniques of Japanese Occupation
Asia for the Asiatics. The Techniques of Japanese Occupation Asia for the Asiatics. The Techniques of Japanese Occupation. By Robert S. Ward. Introduction by Lawrence Salisbury. 1945. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. London: Cambridge University Press. 9′′ × 51⁄2′′. xiv + 205 pp. Map endpapers. 18s.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 1, Ja…
I See a New China
I See a New China Get access I See a New China. By George Hogg. With an Introduction by Rewi Alley. 1945. (London: Gollancz. 71⁄2′′ × 5′′. 163 pp. Map end-papers. 6s.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 1945, Page 424, https://doi.org/10.2307/3018871 Published: 01 July 1945
The Making of Modern China. A Short History
The Making of Modern China. A Short History Get access The Making of Modern China. A Short History. By Owen Eleanor Lattimore. 1945. (London: Allen & Unwin. 8′′ × 51⁄2′′. 212 pp. 8s. 6d.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 1945, Pages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.2307/3018870 Published: 01 July 1945
The Challenge of Red China and The Chinese Communists
Journal Article The Challenge of Red China and The Chinese Communists Get access The Challenge of Red China. By Gunther Stein. 1945. (London: Pilot Press. 81⁄2′′ × 51⁄2′′. 388 pp. Illus. Map end-papers. 15s.)The Chinese Communists. By Stuart Gelder. 1946. (London: Victor Gollancz. 71⁄2′′ × 5′′. xlii + 290 pp. Map end-paper. Illus. frontispiece. 7s. 6d.) John T. Pratt John T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Foreign Mud, being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed
Journal Article Foreign Mud, being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed Get access Foreign Mud, being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. By Collis Maurice. 1946. (London: Faber and Faber. 83⁄4′′ × 51⁄2′′. 319 pp. Illus. Maps. 21s.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in China
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in China Get access Revolution and Counter-Revolution in China. By M. N. Roy. 1946. (Calcutta: Renaissance Publishers. 83⁄4′′ × 51⁄2′′. viii + 689 pp. Biblio. Rs. 15.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 23, Issue 3, July 1947, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017355 Published: 01 July 1947
China and America. The Story of their Relations since 1784
China and America. The Story of their Relations since 1784 Get access China and America. The Story of their Relations since 1784. By Foster Rhea Dulles. 1946. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 8′′ × 51⁄2′′. vii + 277 pp. Biblio. $2.75. 18s. 6d.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 1947, Pages …
The Chinese Constitution. A Study of Forty Years of Constitution-making in China
The Chinese Constitution. A Study of Forty Years of Constitution-making in China Get access The Chinese Constitution. A Study of Forty Years of Constitution-making in China. By P'an Wei-Tung, Ph.D. 2nd Edition. 1946. (New York: G. E. Stechert. Sponsored by the Institute of Chinese Culture, Washington, D 91⁄4′′ × 6′′. xi + 327 pp. Biblio. $4.00.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inter…
Extrême-Orient et Pacifique
Extrême-Orient et Pacifique Get access ExtrÊme-Orient Et Pacifique. By Roger Lévy, Secrétaire général du Comité d'études des problémes du Pacifique, Professeur à l'Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer. 2eÉdition entièrement refondue. 1948. (Paris: Librairie Armand Colin. Collection Armand Colin No. 184. (Section de Géographie). 61⁄2′′ × 41⁄2′′. 200 pp. Biblio. Sommaire. Frs. 120.) J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author …
Old China Hands and the Foreign Office
Chinese-Russian Relations
Journal Article Chinese-Russian Relations Get access Chinese-Russian Relations. By Michel N. Pavlovksy. New York, Philosophical Library, 1949. viii+194 pp. Maps. Index. 834′ ′×512′ ′ . $3.75. J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 1950, Pages 445–446, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607784 Published: 01 July 1950
New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion
Journal Article New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion Get access New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion. By Ssu-yü Teng. Preface by John K. Fairbank. Mimeographed. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press for the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1950. iii+132 pp. 1034′ ′×812′ ′ .$1.75. J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 4,…
China and the Soviet Union
Journal Article China and the Soviet Union : a Study of Sino-Soviet Relations Get access China and the Soviet Union : a Study of Sino-Soviet Relations. By Aitchen K. Wu. Foreword by W. W. Yen. London, Methuen, 1950. xvi+434 pp. Map endpapers. Bibliog. Index. 834′ ′×534′ ′ 25s. J. T. Pratt J. T. Pratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 1951, Page 261, https://do…
Religious Conflict in the Development of the New York City Public School System
History has many uses; unfortunately, polemics is not the least of them. But when argument for argument's sake, or to screen vested positions, repeats simplistic views of human nature, distorts the operations of professional politics, and generally plays fast and loose with the science of evidence, who then has gained? Certainly not historians, nor the non-historians who read history unless it is to reaffirm for many of them the well-established …
Policy and Practice
Comrades and Christians
The Sexual Landscape - Repression or Freedom
Intermediate Treatment and the Normalization Crisis
This paper has as its starting point the unease with which researchers and some members of the social work profession now view current trends in Intermediate Treatment (I.T.) In this paper, which is intended to be an introduction to a more detailed analysis, I attempt to explain these issues by drawing together the historical development of I.T. and showing the connection between these changes that have taken place in penal policy and changes tha…
Law and Social Control
Although the problem of truancy appears to have made good journalistic copy in the last few years (for example, in such headlines as Truancy Patrol Nets 50[1], it has rarely, if at all, come into the focus of the critical perspectives in the sociology of deviance and the sociology of law that have been established in the last decade or so. In all the readers, research literature and other texts that have been produced across these disciplines, we…
Folk-Lore and Fact in Truancy Research
Journal Article FOLK-LORE AND FACT IN TRUANCY RESEARCH Get access J. D. PRATT J. D. PRATT *Research assistant, School Attendance and Legal Action, Joint Research Project of the University of Sheffield and City of Sheffield M.D.G. I would like to thank Monica Walker, Research Fellow, Centre for Criminological and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Sheffield, for her assistance during the preparation of this paper Search for other works by this aut…
Decarceration and Child Care
This article provides an examination of recent policy developments and the critical history relating to observation and assessment centres. It seeks to highlight some of the practical issues and difficulties that might be caused by a general move towards decarceration and de‐institutionalisation in this field (from residential to community‐based assessments) and to place these matters in the general context of theoretical debates in penology and …
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