Restoration, abolition and the loving prison: Jimmy Boyle and Barlinnie Special Unit

Q2 Social Sciences
Alan Norrie
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Abstract

This article revisits Glasgow's Barlinnie Special Unit (BSU) in light of the reissue of Jimmy Boyle's biography of his time in Scottish prisons, ‘A sense of freedom’. Viewing BSU as expressing restorative values, it analyses the different meanings of the sense of freedom which emerge from Boyle's account. It finds a developing dynamic of different meanings of freedom, from negative resistance through trust and solidaristic action to love and creativity. Together these represent a basis for a moral psychology adequate to understanding human change in a prison context. The article considers BSU as a restorative and reparative practice which challenged the prison system's overall punitive and persecutory form – its ‘structure in dominance’. It reflects on Thomas Mathiesen's (1974/2015) Politics of Abolition about the relationship between therapeutic practice and political development to argue that BSU represented an abolitionism relevant to prison today.

恢复,废除和爱的监狱:吉米·博伊尔和巴林尼特别小组
这篇文章回顾了格拉斯哥的巴林尼特别部队(BSU),根据吉米博伊尔在苏格兰监狱的传记重新发行,“自由的感觉”。将BSU看作是一种恢复性价值的表达,分析了波义耳对自由意识的不同理解。它发现了自由的不同含义的发展动态,从负面抵制到信任和团结行动,再到爱和创造力。这些构成了道德心理学的基础,足以理解监狱环境下人类的变化。文章认为BSU是一种恢复性和补偿性的实践,它挑战了监狱系统的整体惩罚和迫害形式-其“主导结构”。它反映了托马斯·马蒂森(1974/2015)关于治疗实践与政治发展之间关系的废除政治,认为BSU代表了与当今监狱相关的废除主义。
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期刊介绍: The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality theory, research and debate on all aspects of the relationship between crime and justice across the globe. It is a leading forum for conversation between academic theory and research and the cultures, policies and practices of the range of institutions concerned with harm, security and justice.
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