Punishment and the Body in the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ South Africa

Super, G. (2011) Punishment and the Body in the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ South Africa: A Story of Punitivist Humanism. Theoretical Criminology, 15(4): 427–443. This paper analyses official discourse about punishment in South Africa, from 1976 to 2004. It frames punishment as a form of governance which is both connected to, and separate from, the Anglo/American/European [...]

A Private-Sector, Incentives-Based Model for Justice Reinvestment

Clear, T. R. (2011) A Private-Sector, Incentives-Based Model for Justice Reinvestment. Criminology and Public Policy, 10(3): 583, August 2011. Justice reinvestment is a recent strategy designed to reduce the use of incarceration and divert the savings to improve the circumstances of communities that have high incarceration rates.More than a dozen states have mounted justice reinvestment [...]

Making Peace, not a Desert

Tonry, M. (2011) Making Peace, not a Desert: Penal Reform should be about Values not Justice Reinvestment. Crime and Public Policy, 10(3): 637-649. The words in Todd Clear’s (2011, this issue) provocative article describe a strategy for reducing the number of people held in American prisons. The music is about the moral need to build [...]

The Private Prison Controversy and the Privatization Continuum

Barak-Erez, D. (2011) The Private Prison Controversy and the Privatization Continuum. Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 5(1): Article 4. Imprisonment calls into question the institutionalized violence of the state and its organs. It touches on the very core of the meaning of state sovereignty and concerns one of the most disempowered groups of society: [...]

WHO: Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability

World Health Organisation: Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability Top Story: World Health Assembly adopts resolution targeted at saving the lives of children from injury. The Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on child injury prevention, the first ever on the topic. The resolution, spurred by the WHO/UNICEF World report on child injury prevention, [...]

Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions

Wortley, R. (2002) Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book examines the control of prison disorder through the application of situational crime prevention principles. It spans two subject areas–crime prevention and corrections–and may interest academics as well as practitioners in these fields. On one hand, the book presents [...]

Book Review: M. Tonry: Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline

Super, G. (2011) Book Review: M. Tonry: Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. International Criminal Justice Review, 21: 78-80. This book consists of a compilation of articles that Tonry has written over the course of his scholarly career. There are clear linkages between the chapters and each [...]

Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative Newsletter: December 2010 and January 2011

In this Issue: Governance and Corruption; Awaiting Trial Prisoners; Parole and Sentencing; Security and Escape; Prisoners’ Rights; South Africans Imprisoned Abroad; Other African Countries   http://www.communitylawcentre.org.za/communitylawcentre.org.za/clc-projects/civil-society-prison-reform-initiative/

Counterblast: How can Communities be Policed in an Age of Austerity: Vigilantism.

Considine, T. 2011. Counterblast: How Can Communities Be Policed In An Age of Austerity: Vigilantism. The Howard Journal. 50(1). Although it has been argued that the political responses to crime have effectively become indistinguishable over the last 20 years or so as New Labour had sought to occupy the territory normally associated with the Conservative [...]

Reducing Crime Through Prevention Not Incarceration.

William, J. Bratton.  2011. Reducing Crime Through Prevention Not Incarceration. Criminology and Public Policy.10 (1). 63-38 This policy essay by William J. Bratton, former Commissioner of the NYPD and Chief of LAPD, provides a useful overview of the key issues involved in determining how to address crime and provides an interesting research agenda for exploring [...]