While it has become increasingly clear that penal policies worldwide are aimed at ‘punishing the poor’, it is also becoming urgent to discuss the ‘poverty of punishment’, namely its debatable utility, official and hidden motivations, social and individual effects and visible dysfunctions. This conference addresses the cultures and philosophies of punishment, which include dreams of socialisation, impulses of revenge, social defence and deterrence. Are we faced with what Nietzsche termed ‘a vulgar substitute for irascibility’? With what Durkheim described as ‘the instinct of vengeance’? Or with what Marx equated with ‘the glorification of the hangman’?
Cultures and philosophies of punishment will be addressed from a variety of angles: the right to rehabilitation, the effectiveness of deterrence, the infliction of pain, the reproduction of crimes and offenders, the warehousing of social problems. The conference will host a photographic exhibition by Robert Gumpert, who has taken pictures inside a San Francisco penitentiary, and will be among the invited guests.
This is a free event and a detailed programme will be circulated in due course.
For further information, please contact Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero: V.Ruggiero@mdx.ac.uk
Confirmed Speakers
Frances Crook (Howard League for Penal Reform)
‘Punishing the Poor: The Purpose of the Penal System?’
Mick Ryan (Greenwich University)
‘Delivering Pain in the Big Society’
Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex University)
‘Cultures of Punishment’
Anthony Goodman (Middlesex University)
‘Resettling Offenders in the Community’
Joe Sim (Liverpool, John More University)
‘Shock and Awe in the Criminal Justice System: Punishing the Poor after the Riots’
Leonidas Cheliotis (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘A Suitable Amount of Rehabilitation: A Critical Look at Arts-in-Prisons Programmes and their Evaluation’
Ruth Jamieson (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Framing Blame and Punishment: Former Politically-Motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland’
Information shared by David Scott in Facebook at the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
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