Extending Punishment

Dr Mindy Sotiri1 1Community Restorative Centre, Broadway, Australia This paper will explore perpetual punishment in the context of leaving prison in NSW, with a particular focus on policies impacting on housing, employment and social connection post-imprisonment. It will argue that...

Prof. Julie Stubbs1, Prof Chris Cunneen2, Prof Eileen Baldry1, Ms Melanie  Schwartz1, Prof David Brown1 1UNSW Sydney, Kensington , Australia, 2University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , Australia Accounts of community sanctions continue to be influenced by the decarceration/net-widening debates...

Dr Anton Symkovych2 1Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2University Of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Південно-Африканська Республіка Most prisoners are eventually released. Many jurisdictions systematise some form of temporary release as preparation for this by facilitating, among other things,...

Miss Jordan Anderson1 1Victoria University Of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Community notification policy and practice has expanded across the advanced liberal democracies, far beyond the initial bounds set out in Megan’s Law in the United States in 1994. In New...

Ms Rosalie Martin1, Mr Ian Thomas2 1Chatter Matters Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Tasmania Prison Service Excellent collaboration supports the well-being and development of the collaborating parties whilst simultaneously progressing mutual goals. Relational trust between collaborating organisations and their representatives is essential....

Ms Tess Bartlett1 1Monash University, Caulfield, Australia Previous work on prison masculinities have tended to focus on the ‘hyper-masculine’ prison environment and a prisoner’s ability to negotiate his place within the prison hierarchy. Yet masculinity is constructed in different ways,...

Prof. Elaine Genders1, Prof. Elaine Player2 1University College, London (UCL), London, United Kingdom, 2King’s College, London (KCL), London, United Kingdom The UK government’s recent indication that it wishes to see a reduction in the size of the women’s prison estate...

Dr Catherine Flynn1, Ms Tess Bartlett1 1Monash University Department Of Social Work, Caulfield East, Australia In 2017, Corrections Victoria reported the daily cost of keeping a person imprisoned was $304.12. This individual approach to ‘cost’ ignores that around 50% of...

Mrs Una Stone1 1Rmit University, Social and Global Studies Centre, Doncaster East, Australia Worldwide the number of incarcerated women is soaring. Research in this area informs us of the specific issues around the incarceration of women, the majority of whom...

Dr Bronwyn Morrison1, Ms Jill Bowman1 1Department Of Corrections, Northland, New Zealand In 2017, there were over 8,900 people released from New Zealand prisons. Of these, almost one fifth had spent at least 12 months in prison. On average, almost...