Pervasive Punishment
Fergus McNeill · Making Sense of Mass Supervision · Emerald · Paperback, 2018
At a glance
The verdict: The most directly relevant addition for readers who want to think critically about probation and community punishment.
Who it’s for: Probation practitioners, criminology students, researchers and policy readers.
Key themes: Community supervision · Punishment · Lived experience
Book overview
Fergus McNeill shifts attention from imprisonment to the expanding reach of supervision in the community. Probation, parole and unpaid work are examined as forms of punishment with their own social consequences, rather than simply as alternatives to custody.
The book brings questions of scale, legitimacy and lived experience together, drawing on social research as well as creative methods including photography, storytelling and songwriting. Its focus on the UK and USA gives readers a basis for comparison while keeping the experience of supervision in view.
It earns a place beside practical workbooks because it asks a different, necessary question: what does supervision feel like to the person subject to it? That makes it a useful choice for reflective practice, seminar discussion and questioning everyday assumptions. Expect an academic argument rather than a step-by-step practice manual; readers new to criminology may prefer to take it a chapter at a time.
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