Tidmarsh, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6063-9805 (2020) Transforming Rehabilitation: The micro-physics of (market) power. Punishment & Society, 22 (1). pp. 108-126. ISSN 1462-4745
Abstract
This paper explores the impact of the introduction of competition and profit to the probation service in England and Wales following the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. The paper adapts the ideas advanced in Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to draw similarities between the characteristics of ‘disciplinary institutions’ and a micro-physics of (market) power in probation under Transforming Rehabilitation. It utilises Foucault’s ‘instruments’ of disciplinary power – hierarchical observation, normalising judgement, and the examination – as lenses through which to highlight the unintended consequences of the installation of market techniques within the service. The paper argues that the constraints peculiar to instilling decentralising market mechanisms that were presented as a means to liberate practitioners and reduce reoffending have entrenched further the centralising tendencies associated with managerialism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020, © SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of an article published in Punishment and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Foucault, managerialism, marketisation, probation, Transforming Rehabilitation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2021 14:31 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1462474519850573 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177358 |