The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and Its Implications

By M. Feeley, J. Simon. 1992

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Interventions over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment (2017, background): “These assessments gave rise to what some scholars have dubbed a “new penology,” whereby penal policies shifted away from rehabilitative interventions to more administrative approaches to population management that rely almost exclusively on incapacitation to mitigate risk (Feeley and Simon, 1992).”
In Between Adolescence and Adulthood (2005, background): “Several years ago, Feeley and Simon (1992) wrote about the so-called new penology as the emerging strategy of corrections.”
Restorative Justice and the Critique of Informalism in Northern Ireland (2002, background): “As has been widely discussed elsewhere, evaluation has become a defining character istic of modern criminal justice practice associated with the broader trends toward managerialism (Feeley and Simon 1992; Bottoms 1995).”
Group Threat and Social Control: Race, Perceptions of Minorities and the Desire to Punish (2007, background): “Many whites are not simply concerned about managing dangerous classes (Feeley and Simon 1992), but more so about managing those perceived as menacing material resources such as jobs and welfare.”
Prisoner Reentry: What Works, What Does Not, and What Is Promising (2003, background): “This perspective is referred to as the “new penology” ( Feeley & Simon, 1992 ).”
societal reaction to sex offenders: a review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability (2004, background): “Further, the system has largely abandoned efforts to change behavior ( Feeley and Simon 1992 ) so incapacitation and retribution have become our main strategy for crime control.”
Can we avoid reductionism in risk reduction? (2017, background): “Using risk knowledge to make existing systems run more efficiently should not be an end in itself, as it sometimes becomes (Feeley and Simon, 1992); rather, the production and application of risk knowledge should be used to understand and eliminate the inequities and injustices that the current peno”
Criminogenic needs and the transformative risk subject (2005, background): “…the ‘new penology’ does not seek to ‘change’ offenders are through ‘targeted interventions’, rather policies are concerned with efficiently identifying and managing a person at risk of reoffending, while minimizing the potential risk to the community (Feeley and Simon, 1992; also see Simon, 1993).”
AN ANALYSIS OF PAROLE DECISION MAKING USING A SAMPLE OF SEX OFFENDERS: A FOCAL CONCERNS (2006, background): “Protection of the community through the assessment of risk is the central focus of the correctional system (Feeley and Simon, 1992).”
‘Lending by numbers’: credit scoring and the constitution of risk within American consumer credit (2007, background): “Some authors (Simon 1987, 1988; Feely and Simon 1992, 1994) view the use of risk and the deployment of statistical techniques as being indicative of a broader shift in the characteristic form of power being exercised at large in society, from discipline to actuarialism, wherein the latter is…”
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement: A Systematic Critique (2018, background): “Feeley and Simon (1992) observed that the era of mass imprisonment occasioned and was facilitated by the emergence of a “new penology”whose key elements—“statistical prediction, concern with groups, strategies of management”—shifted the focus of the prison enterprise “toward mechanisms of…”