Punishment, Probation and Parole

Katharina Maier is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor and Research Chair in Safety, Security and Wellness at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, UK.

• Chapter 1. Punishment, Probation and Parole: Introduction; Fergus McNeill, Katharina Maier, and Rosemary RicciardelliChapter 2. Putting the ‘Mass’ in ‘Mass Supervision’: A Conceptual Analysis; David J. HayesChapter 3. The Loss of Meaning in Mass McProbation and McRe-entry; Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 4. The Changing Role of Community Sanctions in Norway; John Todd-KvamChapter 5. (Un)making Penal Electronic Monitoring Policy in Scotland; Ryan CaseyChapter 6. How Has the Weight of Supervision Changed in Romania in the Last Decade?; Ioan Durnescu and Andrada IstrateChapter 7. ‘That’s not who I am’: Misrecognition, Refusal, and Accommodation Within Parole; Robert WerthChapter 8. Mass Supervision in the South: 10 Years of the Reform to Alternative Sanctions in Chile; Ana María MoralesChapter 9. ‘Secondary Supervision’ in Canada: A Qualitative Examination of How Probationers’ Loved Ones Understand Community Supervision; Katharina Maier, Michael Weinrath, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and Gillan FoleyChapter 10. Community Sanctions in Australia: Engaging State Level Variations and Developing Indigenous Governance; David BrownChapter 11. Punishment, Probation and Parole: Conclusion; Fergus McNeill, Katharina Maier, and Rosemary Ricciardelli

Building off McNeill's (2018) Pervasive Punishment, this new edited volume asks how we "make sense" of mass supervision across time and place. The volume brings together some of the most thoughtful scholars working on community sanctions in Europe, the U.S. and less-well studied countries including Chile and Australia, and elsewhere, asking what purposes sanctions like probation and parole serve in the name of justice and how such supervision is experienced by individuals, families and communities. Each chapter brings us a new location and focus, showing the complex and contradictory forces and experiences of community sanctions. And yet across all this diversity is a sense that community sanctions have strayed from their original purposes, growing more punitive and managerial. Taken together, the volume powerfully asks us to consider whether mass supervision itself can ever be rehabilitated away from punishment.