How do you solve a problem like cJustice? Community Chaplaincy Workshop October 2014.

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How do you solve a problem like cJustice? Community Chaplaincy Workshop October 2014

Transcript of How do you solve a problem like cJustice? Community Chaplaincy Workshop October 2014.

How do you solve a problem like

cJustice?

Community ChaplaincyWorkshopOctober 2014

The premise

Finding a solution … but what is the problem?

Session content

● My interest● ‘McJustice’

o Policy Value for money Payment by results

o Practice Implications for offending Implications for

relationships● Faith as an alternative

discourse

Session ethos

This is a politically driven topic analysed using sociological and theological tools:● Be critical● What do you agree with?● What makes sense?● What conflicts with your

perspective?● What should be disregarded

and what pursued?

Introduction

Bauman and the riots:● “These are riots of

defective and disqualified consumers”

● Anomie theory● “All consumers now,

consumers first and foremost”

Exercise 1

What are your initial thoughts on consumerism and commodification as concepts within the criminal justice system relevant to community chaplaincy?

Defining terms - McJustice

McDonaldisation offers:● Efficiency● Predictability● Calculability● Control

Weber’s rationalisation of Western society:● Irrationality of rationality● Humanity denied

Confession

Mmmm!

Application problems

Supersize Me … health problems

Exercise 2

Discussion point:● Have you observed any of

these trends within your role?

● How reasonable an analytical tool is the concept?

PolicySwift and Sure Justice

● Magna Carta● Swift - prompt and

efficient● Sure - reliable and

commanding public confidence

● Public perception

Swift - prompt and efficient

● Early guilty pleas● Longer opening● More public● Better value and use of

technology

London riots an example but ...

Sure - reliable andcommanding confidence

“firm grip on offenders”● Prisons place of work● More and tougher

community sentences● Focus on communities

rather than targets

Achieved through a mixed economy of provision

McJustice in Swift and Sure

● Is prompt justice good justice?● Rational systems becoming

unreasonable● Increasingly public,

increasingly confident?● Increased reliability, decreased

individuality● Community engagement or

controlled bureaucracy?● Replacement by technology

Policy - Swift and SureMy Conclusions

Common sense?● Value for money● Payment by resultsFaith sense?● Value - Imagio Dei● Results - Common

good

Exercise 3

● How reasonable is the analysis?

● What would this mean for the expectations of services which might be provided by community chaplaincy?

● What would a faith informed response look like?

Considering the impact ofthe consumer society

We are, “all consumers now, consumers first and foremost.”

Bauman (1998)

Consumerism and theoffender

Offending:

● Consumerist anomie● Exclusion from success

criteria for a consumer lifestyle

● McDonaldised interventions & desistance

Exercise 4

● How does this fit in with a faith perspective of understanding criminal behaviour?

● What does this mean in informing our responses to crime?

Consumerism and theoffender

Relationship to criminal justice staff:● Consumer as king● Consumer as victim● Consumer as criminal● Consumer as anti-

consumer● Consumer as voyeur

Consumerism and thepractitioner

Area’s at risk from commodification:

● Respect● Compassion● Equality● Security versus justice● Security versus

branding

Exercise 5

● How have ‘value for money’ pressures impacted on your practice in community chaplaincy?

● How can any of these concerns be addressed?

How do you solve aproblem like cJustice?

Developing an alternative discourses:● Do we want an efficient

business model of criminal justice?

● How can we design an alternative?

● How can we communicate the value of an alternative?

ConclusionSome leaving reflections

● Be aware of potential disenfranchisement

● Encourage personal transformation

● Challenge social transformation and values

● Moral and not just economic issue