Punishing not-for-profit
Implications of nonprofit privatization in juvenile punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12664397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Armstrong (0000-0001-6978-8551, Faculty of Law, Edinburgh University, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-368 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Punishment & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-4745 • E-ISSN: 1741-3095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/146247402400426789 |
| OpenAlex | W1995268765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 17 |
While a lively debate rages over the role of the private sector in the administration of punishment, this debate focuses nearly exclusively on for profit corporations, excluding the role that nonprofit organizations play. A study of the famous Massachusetts experiment in juvenile decarceration (in the early 1970s) and its aftermath provides information about how the nonprofit sector operates in juvenile justice. This information allows for an analysis of how reform rhetoric, and specifically the idealized concepts of ‘community-based’ and ‘nonprofit’, works in practice. ‘Community’ remains an under-theorized notion in criminology, and community-based treatment in Massachusetts often clones the disciplinary regimes of secure custody rather than play setting to less coercive forms of control that then link up informal with formal modes of social control. ‘Nonprofit’ evokes a number of positive images. However, the nonprofit contractors to the Massachusetts juvenile justice system behave in more complicated ways, displaying some characteristics in common with the for profit sector and some in common with the state bureaucracy. All of these qualities combine to create a unique dynamic of nonprofits, which I describe as ‘entrepreneurial bureaucracy’
Bureaucracy · Criminology · Economic Justice · Economics · Political science · Politics · Profit (economics · Public relations · Punishment (psychology · Rhetoric · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Expanding carceral geographies
Post-welfarist risk managers? Risk, crime prevention and the responsibilization of community-based organizations
Humanitarian borderwork’
Challenging mass incarceration in the City of Care
Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work
The emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice
It’s not so black and white
Durkheim, Punishment, and Prison Privatization
Valutare, progettare, implementare. I percorsi punitivo-rieducativi del sistema penale minorile tra giustizia riparativa e terzo settore
Devolution, not decarceration
Inside the penal voluntary sector
Practitioner Emotions in Penal Voluntary Sectors
The Penal Voluntary Sector
The Voluntary Sector and the Mandatory Statutory Supervision Requirement
Resisting and enabling domination
Democracy and Demonstration in the Grey Area of Neo-Liberalism
The Struggle over How to Help Incarcerated People
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers' Relationships with Criminalized Women
Tva and the Grass Roots
Visions of social control
The Nonprofit sector
The Sociology of Nonprofit Organizations and Sectors
The Local Governance of Crime
Private Prisons and the Public Interest
Last One over the Wall
Can Prisons Be Legitimate
Public Imprisonment by Private Means
The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action
Interorganizational Relations
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |