Shadd Maruna - Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Shadd Maruna - Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Shadd Maruna - Rethinking Crime and Punishment
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Who Owns Resettlement? 6sarcasm is literally dripping off the page at this point] just where I may obtainappropriate guidance <strong>and</strong> information? Surely somewhere in the UK, there must besomeone/somebody who has a vague idea of what they perceive to be an acceptableresettlement plan.He finishes the letter with a postscript ―I already have a copy of PSO 2300-Resettlement,along with Prison Rule 52-Resettlement‖, just so I don‘t try to fob him off with the officialbumf.Unfortunately, I couldn‘t help him much. I told him that the UK Association of ChiefOfficers of Probation‘s recently defined ‗resettlement‘ as:A systematic <strong>and</strong> evidenced-based process by which actions are taken to work withthe offender in custody <strong>and</strong> on release, so that communities are better protected fromharm <strong>and</strong> re-offending is significantly reduced. It encompasses the totality of workwith prisoners, their families <strong>and</strong> significant others in partnership with statutory <strong>and</strong>voluntary organisations (cited in Morgan <strong>and</strong> Owers 2001, p. 12, italics added)So, basically, resettlement is everything <strong>and</strong> nothing, <strong>and</strong> the only theory behind it is that ithas to involve stuff that works.The biggest risk about the use of meaningless words is that they run the risk of connotingdifferent things to different audiences. The example I always give on this is what happenedwith the ―reentry‖ discussion in the US. In 1999, the Clinton Administration had proposeda relatively large-scale effort to address some of the needs of people coming out of prisonunder the banner of the ―Young Offender Reentry Initiative‖ (OJP 2000). Somewhat