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Justifying 'Justice': Tracing the role of ignorance in the cultural politics of punishment in the UK

证明“正义”的正当性：追踪无知在英国惩罚文化政治中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W006537/1
负责人：
Chloe Peacock
金额：
$ 12.81万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW006537%2F1
关键词：
Justifying Justice Tracing role ignorance

项目摘要

Reflecting on the 10-year anniversary of the 2011 English 'riots', this fellowship explores how different forms of ignorance enabled and legitimised the state's swift and punitive social policy and penal reaction to the disturbances. In doing so, it seeks to advance current scholarship on the multifaceted role of denial, amnesia, silence and secrecy in maintaining and legitimising the policies and practices of the criminal justice system.The fellowship consolidates my doctoral research, which drew on original qualitative interviews (conducted in 2018) with prosecutors, sentencers and policymakers who were responsible for designing and delivering the swift and strikingly harsh penal response to the unrest; which was characterised by extraordinary severity at each stage (Lightowlers and Quirk, 2015; Pina-Sánchez et al., 2017). Alongside a raft of social policy responses targeting 'troubled families' and 'gang culture', this penal reaction disproportionately targeted young people from racialised and marginalised backgrounds (Amnesty International, 2018; Crossley, 2016; Williams, 2015). Using a critical discourse analysis approach, my thesis shows that four interlocking and overlapping kinds of ignorance enabled professionals to frame this reaction as proportionate, necessary and fair. I contend that these elements - dehistoricised and decontextualised understandings of crime, distorted, racialised and classed imaginations of criminality, highly selective imaginations of public opinion, and denial of the racialised and classed harms of punishment - work together to allow criminal justice professionals to justify the punitive and discriminatory aspects of the system within which they work. While scholars have long since alerted us to the crucial importance of deception, misinformation and mystification, as powerful social, cultural and political forces (Box, 1983; Cohen, 2001), work on this theme has accelerated in recent years, coalescing around the notion of agnotology as the study of ignorance and its crucial social and political functions (Gilroy, 2019; McGoey, 2016, 2019; Proctor and Schiebinger, 2008; Rayner, 2016; Sullivan and Tuana, 2007); emphasising the vital role of 'strategic unknowns' (McGoey, 2016) or 'orchestrated ignorance' (Canning, 2018) in shaping punitive social policy agendas and, to a lesser extent, criminal justice policy and practice (Barton and Davis, 2018; Scott, 2018). This fellowship offers an opportunity to make a significant contribution to this academic endeavour by exploring how ignorance, broadly conceived, shapes contemporary criminal justice policy and practice in the UK; and in particular, normalises and naturalises the well-documented overrepresentation of racialised and marginalised communities in the criminal justice system (Lammy, 2017; Williams and Clarke, 2018).Through the delivery of high quality publications, an academic symposium, a stakeholder workshop and a proposal for a future research project, the fellowship offers an ideal opportunity to progress my academic career by maximising the academic and non-academic impacts of my doctoral research, developing an excellent track record of publication, creating a network of scholars working on ignorance and criminal justice, and increasing my profile and standing as an expert in ignorance and criminal justice.Conducting this fellowship in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol will allow my research to contribute to, and benefit from, outstanding research across a range of disciplines including sociology, politics, social policy and criminology. Being mentored by Dr Elspeth Van Veeren, and being part of the Secrecy, Power and Ignorance research Network (SPIN) will provide unique opportunities for collaboration with world-leading scholars working on ignorance and secrecy, criminal justice, race and racism.

在2011年英国“骚乱”10周年之际，该奖学金探讨了不同形式的无知如何使国家对骚乱的迅速和惩罚性的社会政策和刑事反应合法化。在这样做的过程中，它旨在推进当前的学术研究，即否认、健忘、沉默和保密在维持刑事司法系统的政策和实践并使其合法化方面的多方面作用。（2018年）与检察官，负责设计和实施对骚乱的迅速和惊人严厉的刑事反应的检察官和政策制定者;其特征在于每个阶段的异常严重性（Lightowlers和Quirk，2015; Pina-Sánchez等人，2017年）。除了针对“问题家庭”和“帮派文化”的一系列社会政策反应外，这种刑事反应不成比例地针对种族化和边缘化背景的年轻人（大赦国际，2018年;克罗斯利，2016年;威廉姆斯，2015年）。运用批评性话语分析方法，我的论文表明，四种相互关联和重叠的无知使专业人士能够将这种反应框定为适度，必要和公平。我认为，这些元素- dehistoricised和decontextualised犯罪的理解，扭曲，种族化和分类的想象犯罪，高度选择性的想象舆论，并否认种族化和分类的惩罚的伤害-一起工作，让刑事司法专业人士证明他们工作的系统中的惩罚和歧视方面。虽然学者们早就提醒我们，欺骗、错误信息和神秘化作为强大的社会、文化和政治力量，（Box，1983; Cohen，2001），近年来，关于这一主题的工作加速了，围绕着不可知论的概念，作为对无知及其重要的社会和政治功能的研究，（Gilroy，2019; McGoey，2016，2019;普罗克特和Schiebinger，2008; Rayner，2016; Sullivan和Tuana，2007）;强调“战略未知数”的重要作用（McGoey，2016）或“精心策划的无知”（坎宁，2018）在塑造惩罚性社会政策议程，并在较小程度上，刑事司法政策和实践（巴顿和戴维斯，2018;斯科特，2018）。该奖学金提供了一个机会，通过探索无知如何为这一学术努力做出重大贡献，广泛的设想，塑造当代刑事司法政策和实践在英国;特别是，正常化和自然化的种族化和边缘化社区在刑事司法系统中的充分记录的过度代表性（Lammy，2017;威廉姆斯和克拉克，2018年）。通过提供高质量的出版物，学术研讨会，利益相关者研讨会和未来研究项目的建议，奖学金提供了一个理想的机会，通过最大限度地提高我的博士研究的学术和非学术影响，建立了一个优秀的出版记录，创建了一个致力于无知和刑事司法的学者网络，并提高了我作为无知和刑事司法专家的知名度和地位。在布里斯托大学社会学，政治学和国际研究学院进行这项研究将使我的研究有助于，并受益于跨学科的杰出研究，包括社会学，政治学，社会政策和犯罪学。由Elspeth货车Veeren博士指导，并成为秘密，权力和无知研究网络（SPIN）的一部分，将为与世界领先的学者合作提供独特的机会无知和秘密，刑事司法，种族和种族主义。