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Open Research Online The Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs Emancipatory Politics and Praxis: An anthology of essays written for the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 2013–16 Book How to cite: Scott, David with Bell, Emma; Gilmore, Joanna; Gosling, Helena; Moore, J. M. and Spear, Faith. (2016) Emancipatory Politics and Praxis: An anthology of essays written for the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 2013–16. EG Press, London. For guidance on citations see FAQs. c 2016 The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and Authors, 2016 Version: Not Set Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online’s data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. oro.open.ac.uk Emancipatory Politics and Praxis: An anthology of essays written for the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 2013–16 David Scott with Emma Bell, Joanna Gilmore, Helena Gosling, J.M. Moore and Faith Spear EG Press Limited London 2016 Contents Published by the EG Press Limited, London, England Acknowledgements i www.egpress.org/ Notes on contributors ii Dedication: Barbara Hudson: A torchbearer of justice iii ISBN 978-1-911439-01-1 Foreword: Turn the Tables: On the importance of vii ‘Armchair Activism’ Ida Nafstad and Per Jørgen Ystehede © The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and Authors, 2016 Prologue 1 1. Introduction: Emancipatory politics and praxis 7 Part A: Critical criminology and the utopian imagination 2. Critical criminology and the European Group 15 for the Study of Deviance and Social Control (with Joanna Gilmore and J.M. Moore) 3. Reawakening our Radical Imagination: Thinking 29 realistically about utopias, dystopias and the non-penal Dedication (with Emma Bell) 4. A Disobedient Visionary with an Enquiring Mind: 53 This book is dedicated to the memory of An essay on the contribution of Stan Cohen Barbara Hudson 5. Critical Criminology in the Corporate University: Results 63 from a survey in England, Wales and the North of Ireland Part B: Iatrogenic penal harms and visions of justice 6. Beyond Criminal Justice: ‘It’s a long road to wisdom, 93 but it is a short one to being ignored’ (with J.M. Moore) 7. Constance Lytton: Living for a cause 109 (with Faith Spear) 8. Speaking the Language of State Violence: 123 An abolitionist perspective 9. Against Criminal Injustice, For Social Justice: 143 Reflections and possibilities All author’s royalties have been donated to the European Group Part C: Abolitionist real utopia 10.Reimagining Citizenship: Justice, responsibility and 161 Acknowledgements non-penal real utopias (with Emma Bell) This book would not have been possible without the help and support of a great 11.Otherwise than Prisons, not Prisons Otherwise: 181 many people. First, a massive thank you to Emma Bell, Joanna Gilmore, Helena Therapeutic communities as non-penal real utopias Gosling, J.M. Moore and Faith Spear for agreeing that our co-authored papers (with Helena Gosling) could be included as chapters in this book. Many thanks also to everyone who agreed to participate in the critical criminology survey that was undertaken in 12.Playing the ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card: 203 universities in England, Wales and the North of Ireland between March and May Creating a new abolitionist-based consensus? 2014. Much appreciation to Emma Bell and Jen Morgan for reading the final version of the manuscript. Thanks also to J.M. Moore and all involved in the Epilogue 215 production process at EG Press. I would also like to thank all of my wonderful colleagues at Liverpool John Appendices Moores University (LJMU) for their support and encouragement. I have been very fortunate to work within such a brilliant team and all of the essays in the book were written in the three years I spent working for LJMU from 2013-2016. So a 1: Manifesto of the Working Group on Prisons, Detention 219 massive thank you to all and especially Chris Allen, Kym Atkinson, Giles Barrett, and Punishment Helen Beckett-Wilson, Yulia Chistyakova, Yarin Eski, Jacinta Flemming, Sarah 2: G4S 2014 Annual General Meeting 225 Greenhow, Katherine Harbord, Anne Hayes, Jim Hollinshead, Antoinette Huber, 3: G4S and Human Rights 229 Will Jackson, Janet Jamieson, Laura Kelly, Steve Lawler, Sian Lincoln, Pauline Marne, Lindsey Metcalf, Pete Millward, Helen Monk, Shiobhan Rogers, Rizwaan 4: Critical Criminology Survey Institutions 233 Sabir, Carly Speed, Julie Shaw, Joe Sim, Sarah Tickle, Lucinda Thompson, Katie 5: Critical Criminology Survey Respondent Details 235 Tucker, David Tyrer and Steve Wakeman for making LJMU such a great place to 6: Critical Criminology Survey Questionnaire 237 work. I would also like to say a special thank you to all my friends in the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. This anthology would not have possible without the enormous contributions of members of the group. For their support in a both a personal and professional capacity I would also like to say thank you Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi, Alana Barton, Anette Ballinger, Vanessa Barker, Andrea Beckmann, Monish Bhatia, Michelle Brown, Tony Bunyan, Victoria Canning, Bree Carlton, Eamonn Carrabine, Mick Cavadino, Kathryn Chadwick, Gilles Chantraine, Becky Clarke, Helen Codd, Roy Coleman, Deborah Coles, Vickie Cooper, Mary Corcoran, Tom Daems, Sacha Darke, Pamela Davies, James Deane, John Dennison, Anita Dockley, Andrew Douglas, Deborah Drake, Rod Earle, Anne Egelund, Samantha Fletcher, Billy Frank, Peter Francis, Stratos Georgoulas, Barry Goldson, Fabrice Guilbaud, Penny Green, Simon Hallsworth, William Harrison, Andrew Henley, Paddy Hillyard, Laura Margaret Kelly, Andrew Jefferson, Alessandro Maculan, Margaret Malloch, Thomas Mathiesen, Simon Mackenzie, Maeve McMahon, Will McMahon, Brenda McWilliams, Linda Moore, Wayne Morrison, Bepe Mosconi, Ida Nafstad, Martin O’Brien, Christina Pantazis, Georgios Papanicolaou, Justin Piche, Scott Poynting, Paddy Rawlinson, Rebecca Roberts, Mick Ryan, Simone Santorso, Alvise Sbraccia, Holger Schmidt, Sebastian Scheerer, Phil Scraton, Ann Singleton, Paula Skidmore, Ragnhild Sollund, Lizzy i Emancipatory Politics and Praxis Stanley, Rene van Swaaningen, Steve Tombs, Waqas Tufail, Francesca Vianello, Reece Walters, Tony Ward, Lisa White, David Whyte, Richard Wild, Patrick Williams, Tunde Zak-Williams and Per Jørgen Ystehede. Dedication: Barbara Hudson: a torchbearer of justice Finally, many thanks are also due to my friends and family for their constant encouragement and helpful distractions, especially Ian Nickson, Emily Nickson, Barbara Hudson was a longstanding member of the European Group for Kim Jones, Richard Wilbraham, Sue Wilbraham, Helen Maher, Ian Scott and Ben the Study of Deviance and Social Control, who not only cherished, but Scott. lived, its principles and values. She was a PhD student of Stan Cohen in Despite all of the help of the above, I take responsibility for any errors that lie the early 1980s and his work inspired her to write on a number of topics, within. such as social control, the sociology of punishment and penal abolitionism. Ultimately, though, the leitmotiv running through her life work was an exploration of the meaning of justice: the failure of punishment and criminal processes to deliver justice; the importance of Notes on contributors doing justice to difference/diversity in structurally unequal societies; the foundations and practices of ‘restorative justice’ and, in more recent times, developing and applying the idea of ‘cosmopolitan justice’. An David Scott is senior lecturer in criminology at Liverpool John Moores internationalist and socialist, who felt passionately about Europe and the University, England need for strong commitments to human rights and social justice, her most well-known books are Justice through Punishment (Macmillan, 1987); Emma Bell is professor of British politics at the University of Savoie, Penal Policy and Social Justice (Macmillan, 1993); Understanding Justice France (Open University Press, 1996); and, what many consider to be her Joanna Gilmore is lecturer in law at York University, England magnum opus, Justice in the Risk Society (Sage, 2003). Helena Gosling is senior lecturer in criminal justice at Liverpool John Known for her integrity and scholarship, Barbara Hudson was an Moores University, England innovative and ground-breaking thinker who, by drawing upon moral and political philosophy and legal jurisprudence, alongside sociological, J.M. Moore is senior lecturer in criminology at Newman University, criminological and penological studies, opened up new avenues for critical England analysis. She was a proud representative of the tradition known as ‘critical Ida Nafstad is coordinator of the European Group for the Study of criminology’ and her own contributions brought into sharp relief the close Deviance and Social Control, and a post-doctoral researcher in relationships between penalisation and social inequalities. Throughout Department of the Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden her body of work she placed human beings at the centre of her analysis and constantly challenged the demonisation, dehumanisation and Faith Spear is chair of the Independent Monitoring Board, HMP Hollesley monstering of the ‘Other’. Alongside critiques of injustice and inhumanity, Bay Prison, England and charting contemporary