Respect and Criminal Justice

Respect and Criminal Justice offers the first sustained examination of 'respect' in criminal justice in England and Wales, where the value is elusive but of persisting significance. The book takes the form of a critique of the 'respect deficit' in policing and imprisonment. It is especially concerned with the ways in which both institutions are merely constrained and not characterised by respect. In the course of the critique, it emerges
that they appeal to the word 'respect' but rarely and only superficially address the prior question of what it is to respect and be respected. Despite academic interest in the democratic design of these institutions in recent decades, the book concludes that respect is more akin to a slogan than a foundational value of criminal
justice practice.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: In Search of Respect in Criminal Justice
  


• On Respect, Policing, and Procedural Justice


• 2: Procedural Justice and Narrow Instrumentalism


• 3: Stop and Search as a Respectful Encounter
  


• On Respect and Prison Life


• 4: Penal Policies and Institutional Sociologies


• 5: Respect at Prison Mealtime
  


• 6: Realising Respect

About the author

Gabrielle Watson, Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Gabrielle Watson is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She was formerly a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law at Christ Church, Oxford. In Spring 2019, she held the Inaugural Visiting Fellowship in Law at the newly instituted Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice. In Autumn 2021, she will return to Cambridge as a Visiting Fellow in Law at the CCCJ and at Downing College. She works on topics at the intersection of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and Jurisprudence.

Summary

Offers the first sustained examination of the role and value of respect in policing and imprisonment in England and Wales, where the value is elusive but of persisting significance, and is a challenging corrective to current scholarship which has neglected the significance of respect for those we seek to police and punish.

Additional text

Fascinating... this work will no doubt serve to stimulate real and sustained debate about what we mean by respect and what role it commands in contemporary policing arenas.

Product details

• Authors: Watson , Watson, Gabrielle Watson, Gabrielle (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Watson, Gabrielle (Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law A Watson, Gabrielle (Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College Watson, Watson Gabrielle
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198833345
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883334-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Criminal law & procedure, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social issues & processes, Police & security services, Social and ethical issues, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Police and security services, Law & society, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Law and society, sociology of law