Setting a Good Example for the Ladies’
Example Setting as a Technique of Penal Reform in Specialized Prostitution Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rashmee Singh (University of Waterloo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 569-587 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azx037 |
| OpenAlex | W2730138669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article identifies and examines example setting as a penal technique of reform in one specialized prostitution court in Illinois. Drawing on court observation, I show how informal court practices materialize into visual and verbal narratives designed to valorize defendants who are benefitting from treatment. In exploring their effects, I argue that these stories are not just celebratory rituals. Rather, they are deployed to generate defendant comparisons and to rationalize the enhancement of punishment for those struggling to comply with program demands. The shared structural location of defendants, virtually all of whom are poor and racialized, facilitates this process through communicating the notion that individual will can ultimately overcome social disadvantage and criminalization. This analysis illuminates the role of unwritten and contingent court practices in the reform and responsibilization of criminalized women.
Criminal court · Criminalization · Criminology · Deviance (statistics) · Disadvantage · International law · Narrative · Political science · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
Suspect Identities
The Culture of Control
Discipline and Punish
The Culture of Control
The Will to Empower
Sacrosanct or Flawed
First and Foremost They’re Survivors”
New Localism
Moral Agent or Actuarial Subject
Shifting and targeted forms of penal governance
Justifying Scrutiny
Abusing Vulnerability? Contemporary Law and Policy Responses to Sex Work in the UK
Governing Prostitution
Prisons that Empower
Translating Justice and Therapy
A Precarious Place’
Regulating Prostitution
Taming the shrew
Taming The Shrew
Discipline and Punish
Professional Vision
Getting Gut-Level
Roxanne's Dress
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |