Book Review: The Penal System — An Introduction — Second Edition
| Author | Azrini Wahidin |
| DOI | 10.1177/026975809900600308 |
| Published date | 01 May 1999 |
| Date | 01 May 1999 |
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correct or appropriate.
The
author
makes
a clear
case
for
further
research
to
examine
what
might
be appropriate
for
women
in
such
circumstances.
However,
the
relevance of
this
study
goes
beyond
this
particular substantive
area of
concern.
In particular I
found
its
discussion
and
analysis
of
the
tensions
between
what
has
been
identified
as
police
canteen
culture
and
police behaviour
one
of
the
most
thoughtful I
have
read.
It
makes
the
case
that
canteen culture
is
just
one
way
of
managing
the
nature
and
difficulties of
policework:
of ensuring
some
solidarity
and
back-up
for
each
other
on
the
street.
It
does
not
mean
that
police officers translate
these
rhetorical
devices
into
practices
which
dictate
the
way
in
which
they
behave
in
relation
to
individual
incidents
with
members
of
the
public. Policy
makers
and
politicians
who
assume
that police behaviour
can
be
read off
from
the
canteen culture
would
do
well
to
look
at
this
study.
In
addition
I
found
the
willingness of
this
study
to
challenge
what
seem
to
have
become
the
conventional understandings associated
with
responding
to
domestic
violence,
often
led
by
rather simplistic
feminist
rhetoric
on
this
topic,
both
refreshing
and
thoughtfully presented. I
would
heartily
recommend
this
book
to
anyone
wanting
to
develop
their understanding of
how
policing
and
the
criminal justice system
really
works,
on
any
issue.
This
is
an
excellent
study
which
deserves further
dissemination. Sandra
Walklate
Professor of Sociology
Manchester
Metropolitan
University,
UK.
THE
PENAL
SYSTEM-
AN
INTRODUCTION-
SECOND
EDITION.
Michael Cavadino &
James
Dignan.
Sage;
London,
1997.
pp.
352.
ISBN
0-7619-5328-0.
£14.99.
Michael Cavadino
and
James
Dignan
have
provided
a
text
which
applies a
critical
lens
to
the
penal
system.
It
is
a
comprehensive
guide
that
takes
the
reader
step
by
step
through
the
criminal justice
system:
from
the
political rhetoric of
1875
through
to
the period of post
modernity
and
the
obvious
deleterious effects
of current
penal
ideology
on
the
lives
of
those
who
get
caught
in
the
net
widening
trawl.
It
illustrates
the
shifting
ideology
in
relation
to
the
penal
system.
The
authors' interrogation of the
penal
system
highlights
the
volatile structures
within
which
it
works,
guided
by
sweeping
populist,
punitive
and
retributive
agendas.
The
question raised
and
implied
in
the
book
is
whether
these
lead
to
a
growing
crisis of legitimacy
in
the
penal
system.
Is
this
mood
of punitiveness,
this
move
from
Safari Parks
to
Boot
Camps,
indicative of
how
the
state
is
attempting
to
claw
back control?
One
must
remember
that
this
growing
disenchantment
with
rehabilitative ideals
is
not
a recent
phenomenon
but
one
which
has
been
brewing
since Bentham's utilitarian
philosophy
in
which
he
advocated
that
the
penal
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