RT Article
T1 Transforming Rehabilitation: The micro-physics of (market) power
JF Punishment & society
VO 22
IS 1
SP 108
OP 126
A1 Tidmarsh, Matt
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1761700596
AB 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.
K1 Foucault, Michel : 1926-1984
K1 Transforming Rehabilitation
K1 Managerialism
K1 Marketisation
K1 Probation
DO 10.1177/1462474519850573