Respect and Criminal Justice by Watson Gabrielle;

Author:Watson, Gabrielle;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

6. A ‘protean notion’

It has been possible, then, to trace a clear assertion of a value base or moral vocabulary in prisons—prompted by the recommendations of the Woolf Report—followed by various failed attempts to make sense of and sustain that vocabulary. We can discern a further attempt to reassert that vocabulary at the beginning of the next decade by means of the Decency Agenda and later by means of the Rehabilitation Revolution.107 The organisational management of prisoners ensured that respect, together with decency and fairness, remained relevant throughout this period, if only in official discourse.

In effect, HM Prison Service has had a fluctuating relationship with respect, and there is ample evidence to suggest that the value has merely constrained and not characterised the institution’s managerialist concerns since Woolf. That respect has been able to withstand this fluctuating relationship without disappearing entirely from sight is testament to its reputation as a ‘protean notion’ that may be ‘used in multiple ways’ as part of ‘various discursive positionings’.108 The prison has maximised—intentionally or otherwise—on the flexibility of respect and its capacity to drift between several potential meanings. As ever, it has appealed to the word ‘respect’ while neglecting to cultivate the value in practice.

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