Prison visitation as human 'right' or earned 'privilege'? The differing tales of England/Wales, and Scotland
Prison visitation as human 'right' or earned 'privilege'? The differing tales of England/Wales, and Scotland
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探视监狱是人类的“权利”还是赢得的“特权”？
DOI：
10.1080/09649069.2017.1390292
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
McCarthy D
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作者：
McCarthy D
监狱探视被广泛认为是公正和人道的监狱系统的一个重要特征，为囚犯及其家人保持联系提供了重要利益。然而，在英格兰和威尔士，强调在服刑期间保持囚犯与家人的联系仍然是监狱服务的一个低优先事项，监狱探访在意识形态上被视为囚犯的“特权”而不是“权利”。本文将英格兰和威尔士与苏格兰进行了对比，苏格兰采用了不同的方法来支持探视和家庭联系。在苏格兰，随着刑事福利主义的历史背景更加令人愉快，人们强烈关注人权，将其作为这些政策的理由。本文评估了两个政府的监狱探视方法之间的差异，位于一些更广泛的重新安置的结果，这可能是通过这些政策反应收集的讨论。
Prison visitation has been widely recognised as an important feature of a just and humane prison system, providing important benefits for prisoners and their family in maintaining ties. However, emphasis on maintaining prisoner–family ties over the sentence has remained a low priority for the prison service in England and Wales, with prison visits ideologically framed as a ‘privilege’ rather than a ‘right’ for prisoners. This paper contrasts England and Wales with Scotland where a diverging approach to supporting visitation and family contact has been implemented. In Scotland, a strong focus on human rights as a justification for these policies has occurred, in tandem with more palatable historical context of penal welfarism. This paper assesses differences between the two governmental approaches to prison visitation, situated in discussion of some of the broader resettlement outcomes which may be garnered via these policy responses.