Respect and Criminal Justice
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2020
256 pages
978-0-19-256980-6 (ISBN)
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Respect and Criminal Justice offers the first sustained examination of 'respect' in criminal justice in England and Wales, where the value is elusive but of persisting significance. The book takes the form of a critique of the 'respect deficit' in policing and imprisonment. It is especially concerned with the ways in which both institutions are merely constrained and not characterised by respect. In the course of the critique, it emerges that they appeal to the word 'respect' but rarely and only superficially address the prior question of what it is to respect and be respected. Despite academic interest in the democratic design of these institutions in recent decades, the book concludes that respect is more akin to a slogan than a foundational value of criminal justice practice.
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Gabrielle Watson, Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Gabrielle Watson is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She was formerly a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law at Christ Church, Oxford. In Spring 2019, she held the Inaugural Visiting Fellowship in Law at the newly instituted Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice. In Autumn 2021, she will return to Cambridge as a Visiting Fellow in Law at the CCCJ and at Downing College. She works on topics at the intersection of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and Jurisprudence.
Content
- Introduction
- 1: In Search of Respect in Criminal Justice
- On Respect, Policing, and Procedural Justice
- 2: Procedural Justice and Narrow Instrumentalism
- 3: Stop and Search as a Respectful Encounter
- On Respect and Prison Life
- 4: Penal Policies and Institutional Sociologies
- 5: Respect at Prison Mealtime
- 6: Realising Respect
