Pat Carlen
Biographic Data
| ID | 202863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pat Carlen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pat |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlen |
| SIGNATURE | CARLEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control
First published in 1983, Women’s Imprisonment explores the meanings of women’s imprisonment and, in particular, the wider meanings of the ‘moment’ of prison. Based on officially sponsored research in Cornton Vale, Scotland’s only women’s prison, the book makes extensive use of interviews with sheriffs, policemen, and social workers, as well as observation in the prisons, the courts, and the lodging-houses. The author quotes from interviews with w…
Justice Alternatives
This chapter seeks to critically examine current approaches to criminal records and their disclosure outside of criminal justice processes. In particular, it questions the rationalities underpinning disclosure practices where the rights of people with convictions (henceforth ‘PWCs’) to live a life free of stigma are often subordinated to the perceived need to maintain ‘public safety’ by disseminating criminal record information. Instead, an alter…
Struggling for justice
This piece is a foreword to the special issue ‘The Space of Justice: Courtrooms, Innovation, Practice’. The foreword introduces themes of the special issue by reflecting on changes the author has observed since her original ground-breaking study in magistrates’ courts in London in 1974. This piece was delivered as an address to the participants at the Space of Justice symposium in Melbourne in July 2017
Just Criminology: The Legacy of Jock Young
In his search for a just criminology, Jock Young displayed a courageous originality in his uses of critique and imagination. It is argued that one of Young’s unique legacies to criminology might be that, in fashioning the new, he tried out every conceivable method – including irony, satire and contradiction – for understanding and transforming the old. This is why he was constantly changing perspective, sometimes privileging one mode of analysis,…
Women and Punishment
Analysing Women's Imprisonment
In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of women, and women's experience of both prison and the criminal justice system is very different to men's. This text is concerned to address the key issues relating to women's imprisonment, contributing at the same time to an understanding of prison issue…
Doing Probation Work: Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation. By Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall (London: Routledge, 2013, 182pp. 85.00 hb)
When, in the 1970’s, I was studying magistrates’ courts in London, magistrates repeatedly told me that, although they had immense admiration for the work of probation officers, they were ‘not quite sure what it is that probation officers actually do’. And this widespread feeling about the seemingly nebulous nature of probation work may be one reason for the relative lack of focus on probation by criminologists over the years. As a result, and pri…
Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment. Edited by Stephen Farrall, Mike Hough, Shadd Maruna and Richard Sparks (London: Routledge, 2011, 2178pp. 75.00 hb)
When I had finished reading this book (including its Introduction) I was so confused by the diversity of perspectives (and their contrasting and contradictory theoretical assumptions and underpinnings) that I was driven to read the cover blurb to find out if my ‘take’ on the project meshed with the editors’ declared intentions. And I was relieved to find that it did. According to the back-cover summary, this is not a book solely for criminologist…
Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill. By Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 205pp.)
Lizzie Seal's Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill is a beautifully written sociological analysis of mid-twentieth-century representations of women defendants in rather unusual cases of murder or suspected murder/manslaughter. Yet, although gender representations of women who kill are indeed the primary focus of the book, the analytic emphasis on culture, intersectionality and fractured subjectivities, together w…
The Currency of Justice: Fines and Damages in Consumer Societies. By Pat O'Malley (Abingdon and New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009, ix + 187pp. 22.99)
Journal Article The Currency of Justice: Fines and Damages in Consumer Societies. By Pat O'Malley (Abingdon and New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009, ix + 187pp. £22.99) Get access THE CURRENCY OF JUSTICE: FINES AND DAMAGES IN CONSUMER SOCIETIES. By Pat O’Malley (Abingdon and New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009, ix + 187pp. £22.99) Pat Carlen Pat Carlen University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Cultural Criminology: An Invitation. By Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward and Jock Young (London: Sage, 2008) * Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism. …
In 2007, I attended a conference on cultural criminology. Speakers included Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward and Jock Young—all authors of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation under review here. I had gone to find out what cultural criminology is all about; I failed miserably in my quest. To me, the occasion was like most other conferences: some papers were excellent, some were nondescript and some were downright mystifying. But I couldn’t see what was…
Reconfigurations of penality: The ongoing case of the women’s imprisonment and reintegration industries
Illustrating their arguments with empirical examples drawn from two recent research projects—one cross-European, the other Scottish—the authors argue that the new multi-layering of carceral forms in both prison and the community is one major, but under-explored, cause of continuing increases in women’s prison populations. Whether it is because sentencers believe the reintegration industry’s rhetoric about the effectiveness of in-prison programmes…
Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland 1972–1998. By Mary Corcoran (Cullompton: Willan, 2006, 261pp.)
Risk and Responsibility in Women's Prisons
I have been invited to discuss Risk and Responsibility in Women’s Prisons, a task which, is slightly intimidating for one such as I, who, having never worked in a prison, have never experienced the risks and responsibilities working in a prison entails. However, this discussion is based on what prisons’ staff have told me, as they have ruminated on the complexities of their jobs in women’s prisons and many of the examples which I will be using ar…
Controlling measures: The repackaging of common-sense opposition to women's imprisonment in England and Canada
This article compares the ways in which English and Canadian campaigning and reforming discourses aiming to reduce either the numbers of women in prison or the damage done by repressive regimes in the women's prisons have been incorporated via new vocabularies into new policy discourses. It is argued that, in England and Wales, these newly created official discourses on the meaning of women's crime will result both in the increased (anti)social c…
Carceral clawback: The case of women’s imprisonment in Canada
Death and the Triumph of Governance: Lessons from the Scottish Women's Prison
Analyses of the consciously moral attempts to combat suicide at a women's prison via organizational innovation provide important lessons not only in the governance of women's prisons, but also in the conditionality and politics of contemporary penal probity. At the policy level they call into question the adequacy of quantitative methods for assessing staff efficiency in delivering an appropriate anti-suicide policy. In the realms of theory and p…
Sledgehammer: Women's Imprisonment at the Millennium
Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of prev
The governance of homelessness: Legality, lore and lexicon in the agency— maintenance of youth homelessness
The article's main argument is that homelessness is not merely about housing scarcity but is also a site of struggle over social change. To support the argument, empirical research data is used to demonstrate how state agencies maintain homelessness via both the creation and subsequent deterrence, denial and disciplining of challenging popu lations
Truancy; The Politics of Compulsory Schooling
Truancy and compulsory schooling - a socio-historical account researching school attendance modes of regulation modes of resistance schooling, truancy and the new ERA. Appendices
Why Study Women's Imprisonment? Or Anyone Else's
Journal Article WHY STUDY WOMEN'S IMPRISONMENT? OR ANYONE ELSE'S? An Indefinite Article Get access Pat Carlen Pat Carlen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 34, Issue S1, 1994, Pages 131–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.34.S1.131 Published: 01 September 1994
Pindown, Truancy, and the Interrogation of Discipline: A Paper about Theory, Policy, Social Worker Bashing… and Hypocrisy
Pat Carlen, Pindown, Truancy, and the Interrogation of Discipline: A Paper about Theory, Policy, Social Worker Bashing... and Hypocrisy, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 251-270
Gender Crime and Justice
Survival of the Sanest: Order and Disorder in a Psychiatric Clinic
Alternatives to women's imprisonment
Women's crimes and women's imprisonment - current trends prisons - preparing women for release a home of one's own women together - being, education, work women's imprisonment - toward abolition
Reconfigurations of penality: The ongoing case of the women’s imprisonment and reintegration industries
Illustrating their arguments with empirical examples drawn from two recent research projects—one cross-European, the other Scottish—the authors argue that the new multi-layering of carceral forms in both prison and the community is one major, but under-explored, cause of continuing increases in women’s prison populations. Whether it is because sentencers believe the reintegration industry’s rhetoric about the effectiveness of in-prison programmes…
Carceral clawback: The case of women’s imprisonment in Canada
The Staging of Magistrates' Justice
Journal Article THE STAGING OF MAGISTRATES' JUSTICE Get access PAT CARLEN PAT CARLEN *Department of Sociology, Brunel UniversityUxbridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 1976, Pages 48–55, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046692 Published: 01 January 1976
Death and the Triumph of Governance: Lessons from the Scottish Women's Prison
Analyses of the consciously moral attempts to combat suicide at a women's prison via organizational innovation provide important lessons not only in the governance of women's prisons, but also in the conditionality and politics of contemporary penal probity. At the policy level they call into question the adequacy of quantitative methods for assessing staff efficiency in delivering an appropriate anti-suicide policy. In the realms of theory and p…
Analysing Women's Imprisonment
In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of women, and women's experience of both prison and the criminal justice system is very different to men's. This text is concerned to address the key issues relating to women's imprisonment, contributing at the same time to an understanding of prison issue…
The governance of homelessness: Legality, lore and lexicon in the agency— maintenance of youth homelessness
The article's main argument is that homelessness is not merely about housing scarcity but is also a site of struggle over social change. To support the argument, empirical research data is used to demonstrate how state agencies maintain homelessness via both the creation and subsequent deterrence, denial and disciplining of challenging popu lations
Why Study Women's Imprisonment? Or Anyone Else's
Journal Article WHY STUDY WOMEN'S IMPRISONMENT? OR ANYONE ELSE'S? An Indefinite Article Get access Pat Carlen Pat Carlen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 34, Issue S1, 1994, Pages 131–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.34.S1.131 Published: 01 September 1994
The English Prison Officer Since 1850: A Study in Conflict
Magistrates' Courts: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Official Discourse
This paper analyses two Official Reports on law and order. They confront legitimation deficits, seeking discursively to redeem them by denial of their material geneses. This denial establishes an absence in the discourse. This absence, the Other, is the silence of a world constituted by material relations whose reality cannot be appropriated by a mode of normative argument which speaks to and from its own self-image via an idealised conception of…
Just Criminology: The Legacy of Jock Young
In his search for a just criminology, Jock Young displayed a courageous originality in his uses of critique and imagination. It is argued that one of Young’s unique legacies to criminology might be that, in fashioning the new, he tried out every conceivable method – including irony, satire and contradiction – for understanding and transforming the old. This is why he was constantly changing perspective, sometimes privileging one mode of analysis,…
Truancy; The Politics of Compulsory Schooling
Truancy and compulsory schooling - a socio-historical account researching school attendance modes of regulation modes of resistance schooling, truancy and the new ERA. Appendices
Pindown, Truancy, and the Interrogation of Discipline: A Paper about Theory, Policy, Social Worker Bashing… and Hypocrisy
Pat Carlen, Pindown, Truancy, and the Interrogation of Discipline: A Paper about Theory, Policy, Social Worker Bashing... and Hypocrisy, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 251-270
Gender Crime and Justice
Papa's Discipline: An Analysis of Disciplinary Modes in the Scottish Women's Prison
The English Prison Officer Since 1850: A Study in Conflict
Remedial Routines for the Maintenance of Control in Magistrates' Courts
Magistrates' Courts: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Magistrates' Justice
The Staging of Magistrates' Justice
Journal Article THE STAGING OF MAGISTRATES' JUSTICE Get access PAT CARLEN PAT CARLEN *Department of Sociology, Brunel UniversityUxbridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 1976, Pages 48–55, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046692 Published: 01 January 1976
Official Discourse
This paper analyses two Official Reports on law and order. They confront legitimation deficits, seeking discursively to redeem them by denial of their material geneses. This denial establishes an absence in the discourse. This absence, the Other, is the silence of a world constituted by material relations whose reality cannot be appropriated by a mode of normative argument which speaks to and from its own self-image via an idealised conception of…
Magistrates' Justice
The Sociology of Law
Official Discourse: On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State
Papa's Discipline: An Analysis of Disciplinary Modes in the Scottish Women's Prison
Radical Issues in Criminology
This collection of essays deals with central issues relating to the rule of law, individual rights and the politics of penal reform. The issues examined include juvenile justice, criminal violence, feminism and criminology, civil liberties, police powers, justice in prisons and the necessity for social life to be regulated by law. The emphasis throughout is upon specific concrete problems and the formulation of possible solutions. In marked contr…
Essays in Law and Society
Mothers in Prison (Book)
Women, crime, and poverty
Rape on Trial
Alternatives to women's imprisonment
Women's crimes and women's imprisonment - current trends prisons - preparing women for release a home of one's own women together - being, education, work women's imprisonment - toward abolition
Survival of the Sanest: Order and Disorder in a Psychiatric Clinic
Pindown, Truancy, and the Interrogation of Discipline: A Paper about Theory, Policy, Social Worker Bashing… and Hypocrisy
Pat Carlen, Pindown, Truancy, and the Interrogation of Discipline: A Paper about Theory, Policy, Social Worker Bashing... and Hypocrisy, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 251-270
Gender Crime and Justice
The governance of homelessness: Legality, lore and lexicon in the agency— maintenance of youth homelessness
The article's main argument is that homelessness is not merely about housing scarcity but is also a site of struggle over social change. To support the argument, empirical research data is used to demonstrate how state agencies maintain homelessness via both the creation and subsequent deterrence, denial and disciplining of challenging popu lations
Truancy; The Politics of Compulsory Schooling
Truancy and compulsory schooling - a socio-historical account researching school attendance modes of regulation modes of resistance schooling, truancy and the new ERA. Appendices
Why Study Women's Imprisonment? Or Anyone Else's
Journal Article WHY STUDY WOMEN'S IMPRISONMENT? OR ANYONE ELSE'S? An Indefinite Article Get access Pat Carlen Pat Carlen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 34, Issue S1, 1994, Pages 131–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.34.S1.131 Published: 01 September 1994
Sledgehammer: Women's Imprisonment at the Millennium
Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of prev
Death and the Triumph of Governance: Lessons from the Scottish Women's Prison
Analyses of the consciously moral attempts to combat suicide at a women's prison via organizational innovation provide important lessons not only in the governance of women's prisons, but also in the conditionality and politics of contemporary penal probity. At the policy level they call into question the adequacy of quantitative methods for assessing staff efficiency in delivering an appropriate anti-suicide policy. In the realms of theory and p…
Controlling measures: The repackaging of common-sense opposition to women's imprisonment in England and Canada
This article compares the ways in which English and Canadian campaigning and reforming discourses aiming to reduce either the numbers of women in prison or the damage done by repressive regimes in the women's prisons have been incorporated via new vocabularies into new policy discourses. It is argued that, in England and Wales, these newly created official discourses on the meaning of women's crime will result both in the increased (anti)social c…
Sociology (33 works) · Political science (30 works) · Criminology (29 works) · Law (24 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (17 works) · Economic Justice (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Imprisonment (7 works)