Andrew Henley
Abolishing the stigma of punishments served: Andrew Henley argues that those who have been punished should be free from future discrimination
Henley, Andrew
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Abstract
The Benthamite workhouse principle of ‘less eligibility’ dates back to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and, since its application to the sphere of criminal justice, has long dictated that prisoners and other lawbreakers should always be last in the queue for access to scant welfare resources because of the moral censure attached to their behaviour. This continues to be problematic for those advocating penal reform with debates about imprisonment often descending into objections to any material improvement in conditions on the basis that they would be unfair to ‘hard-working taxpayers’ or the supposedly ‘law-abiding majority’. An allied but lesser known principle is that of ‘non-superiority’ which Mannheim (1939) described as ‘the requirement that the condition of the criminal when he has paid the penalty for his crime should be at least not superior to that of the lowest classes of the non-criminal population’.
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Henley, A. (2014). Abolishing the stigma of punishments served: Andrew Henley argues that those who have been punished should be free from future discrimination. Criminal Justice Matters, 97(1), (22-23). doi:10.1080/09627251.2014.950521. ISSN 0962-7251
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 1, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 8, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jul 3, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Aug 7, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Criminal Justice Matters |
Print ISSN | 0962-7251 |
Electronic ISSN | 1934-6220 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 97 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 22-23 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2014.950521 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/958967 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09627251.2014.950521 |
Additional Information | Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rcjm20 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Criminal Justice Matters on 8 Aug 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09627251.2014.950521 |
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