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The pains of indeterminate imprisonment for family members: findings and recommendations: extended report
No full textThe pains of indeterminate imprisonment for family members
No full textThe indeterminate Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence has rightly been described as the ‘least carefully planned and implemented pieces of legislation in the history of British sentencing’. Notwithstanding increasing scholarly and policymaker interest in both prisoner families and ‘dangerous offender’ measures such as the IPP, the experiences of families of IPP prisoners has so far remained unexplored. This paper reports on a research project that addresses this lacuna
The pains of indeterminate imprisonment for families of IPP prisoners: assessing harms and finding solutions
No full textThis briefing reports on the first empirical exploration of this important issue. It comprised in-depth interviews with family members; an online survey of families; and interviews with policy participants.The findings make clear that a pervasive sense of injustice and uncertainty underpins and permeates more specific concerns relating to efforts to progress towards release, and managing the stresses of life beyond release. Families report significant material effects, which appear to be heavily gendered in their distribution. Family relationships – both with the prisoner and more widely – are often heavily disrupted. Respondents reported significant negative health effects caused by the stress and anxiety
The pains of hope: families of indeterminate sentenced prisoners and political campaigning by lay citizens
No full textThis paper examines the politics of crime and insecurity as experienced ‘from below’. We draw on in-depth interviews with families of indeterminate-sentenced prisoners, and policy participants, in order to understand families’ experiences of their relative’s imprisonment under the discredited English Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence and their public campaigning against it. We situate these experiences within broader structural trends, which we conceptualise as penal-familial assemblages. We argue that the experiences cause ‘pains of hope’ for families through a double liminality: first, due to the uncertainties caused by the indeterminate sentence, which brings neither closure nor release. Second, meaningful state action on campaigners’ demands remained elusive, with moments when change appeared close but ultimately remained just out of reach. In conclusion, we draw out the lessons from our study for analysing penal politics. We argue, in particular, for a humanistic recognition of the centrality, and the pains, of lay citizens’ efforts to seek to achieve progressive penal policy change
Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
Black motherhood and child to parent violence and abuse: exploring experiences and perceptions
No full textThough historically understudied, Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) is now recognised as a grave and complex social issue among policymakers, practitioners, and academics within Global North countries (Simmons et al. 2018). While the overrepresentation of mothers as victims of this phenomenon is duly observed in research (Fawzi et al. 2013; Condry and Miles, 2014; Calvete et al. 2015), there is little empirical exploration on how CPVA manifests within families of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. As the first in-depth academic work to explore how CPVA is perceived, experienced and navigated by Black mothers in England, this thesis addresses this gap by advancing an intersectional disaggregation of parental experiences. It draws upon a mixed qualitative approach of interviews, focus groups and victim questionnaires with 19 Black African and Caribbean mothers and 26 professionals to provide insight into the multi-layered and complex nature of Black maternal identity, its idealisations and inherent tensions. By foregrounding race and ethnicity in the ‘social institution of motherhood’ (Rich, 1976), this thesis finds that CPVA compounds with the social identities of Black mothers to frame their perception, experience and navigation of the phenomenon. Though the criminalisation of Black childhood and the pathologisation of Black motherhood are considered separate issues, this thesis found that the participation of mother and child in the shared struggle against systemic racism implicates the navigation of CPVA, as the racialised systems inherent in schools, social care, mental health services, and the criminal legal system affect Black maternal coping and help-seeking efforts. Theoretically and conceptually, this thesis uses intersectionality and a Black epistemological reworking of ‘Stigma’ to explore the racialised undertones of maternal blame and stigmatisation (Tyler, 2018; 2022). It highlights how the intersecting gendered and racialised disadvantages marking Black womanhood manifest through racial tropes like the ‘Strong Black Woman’ and the ‘Baby mama’, which not only perpetuate a myth of deficiency in Black motherhood but contribute to the misidentification of CPVA and form barriers to formal and informal support pathways. Through the adultification of Black children and their false labelling as ‘violent and aggressive’ (Davis, 2022), Black mothers are placed in a quandary where they must balance the tripartite role of ‘mother-victim-advocate’ as they navigate CPVA
Episode 3: Rachel Wightman, CSP Staff and Author
No full textIn this episode, CSP\u27s Associate Director of Instruction and Outreach, Rachel Wightman, shares about her new book, Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely, including how she became interested in the topic, what led to the creation of this book, and why this topic is so important today
Rachel Swarns Book Event: The 272
No full textA conversation with Rachel Swarns, author of The GU272: The Families Who Were Enslaved And Sold To Build The American Catholic Church (Penguin Random House 2023). The conversation was moderated by Georgetown Professor Adam Rothman and hosted by Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Theodore Clement Steele: A Lecture by Rachel Perry
No full textJoin author and curator Rachel Perry for a lecture on the life and artwork of Theodore Clement (TC) Steele. Perhaps the most well-known artist of the “Hoosier Group,” Steele created impressionist portraits and landscape paintings from his studio in Nashville, Indiana.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1084/thumbnail.jp
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection
No full textThis article contributes to the emerging literature on narrative victimology by examining what we will suggest to be a telling ‘liminal case’: families of people sentenced to Imprisonment for Public Protection in England and Wales. We draw on qualitative research conducted with families of people sentenced to Imprisonment for Public Protection to explore how they narrated their experiences and show that while their own predominant narratives do overlap to a considerable degree with commonly accepted victimhood frames, they fail fully to ‘fit’. We argue that such liminal cases have considerable value for the study of narrative victimology: just as ‘central’ or ‘ideal’ cases provide telling insights, the examination of the specific contours of ‘ill fitting’ case studies allows us to trace in more precise detail the boundaries – the extent, the force and the limits – of predominant narratives
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