{"title":"Living with desistance: Breaking the cycle By David Honeywell. Abingdon: Routledge. 2024. pp. 166. £104.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781032228440; £31.19 (pbk). ISBN: 9781032228457; £35.99 (ebk). ISBN: 9781003274452","authors":"M. Doherty","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"271-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren Smith, Karen Harrison, Rachael Mason, Helen Nichols, Lauren Hall, Gary Saunders
{"title":"‘Hammering on the pressure’: Prison governor well-being and the need for a more humanised approach","authors":"Lauren Smith, Karen Harrison, Rachael Mason, Helen Nichols, Lauren Hall, Gary Saunders","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12595","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The challenges of prison work and the impact on the well-being of prison officers is widely publicised. However, less is known about the well-being of prison governors, and what may impact this: the focus of this research. Semi-structured interviews (n = 63) with prison governors across England, Scotland and Wales, analysed using thematic analysis, indicated core themes around poor well-being, limited work-life balance and feelings of disenchantment. The well-being climate was underpinned by challenges within the occupational culture including the relentless workloads, a so-called ‘macho culture’, competing expectations, a dissonance between responsibility and autonomy, and a lack of role understanding between staff within prisons and those working from HM Prison and Probation Service headquarters. The challenges were exacerbated, but not caused, by Covid-19 and a lack of perceived value among staff, but mitigated to a degree by individual coping and some access to governor-specific support. Implications and future directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"208-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Star men’ in English convict prisons, 1879–1948 By B. Bethell, Abingdon: Routledge. 2022. pp. 225. £108.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781032064253; £31.99 (pbk). ISBN: 9781032064277; £35.99 (ebk). ISBN: 9781003202271","authors":"Emily Rose Hay","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 1","pages":"124-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criminal justice reform, conviction without trial and the role of the criminal judge in Argentina","authors":"Máximo Sozzo","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12591","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article addresses the role of criminal judges in mechanisms of conviction without trial that have spread in recent decades in Latin America, in the context of criminal justice reforms towards an adversarial model. These mechanisms in the region are the result of a complex translation of plea bargaining from USA legal tradition which included adaptations and innovations. One of those is a strongly active and interventionist role for the criminal judge in ‘law in books’. However, through empirical research in the Province of Santa Fe (Argentina), this article shows how a judicial practice of routine and fast ‘homologation’ of agreements is effectively structured in ‘law in action’. This role implies a sort of deresponsibilisation in relation to the exercise of the power to punish, in stark contrast with the inquisitorial model, precisely in a warm climate of strong public distrust and criticism of state crime control institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"252-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gemma Morgan, Debbie Jones, Charlotte Walker, Gayle Prideaux, Emma Jones
{"title":"Co-production in the criminal justice system: Introducing the DEVICES principles","authors":"Gemma Morgan, Debbie Jones, Charlotte Walker, Gayle Prideaux, Emma Jones","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12590","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the concept of co-production is becoming embedded in mental health and social care, the criminal justice system (CJS) has been slower in embracing this approach. In this article, we draw on the findings of a process evaluation of the Include UK Hub – a co-produced service for people with offending histories in Swansea, UK and, in doing so, introduce the DEVICES principles of co-production. The DEVICES is derived from the empirical evaluation data and includes the following principles – Development, Empathy, Voices, Individual, Change, Empowerment, and Spaces. These principles will appeal globally to practitioners and policymakers looking to meaningfully utilise co-production to develop services and support for people in the criminal justice system.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"162-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The same, but different: The interactive effect of attributes of judges on judicial decision making and sentencing outcomes","authors":"Sarah Gansen","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12589","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, I consider whether certain attributes of a judge and, most importantly, the interaction effects of these characteristics affect the way judges decide cases and can explain disparities in sentencing outcomes. Using a supervised machine learning technique, the analysis uncovers some important effects not previously discussed in the extant literature. The results suggest that judges appointed by Republican Governors are most likely to give harsher sentences for all crimes but especially for felony and violent offences. Concerning crimes involving a high level of moral turpitude, judges get harsher as they age and men much more so than women.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"181-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘No TV programme is made about boring magistrates’ cases’: Revisiting the ‘ideology of triviality’ in magistrates’ justice","authors":"Amy Kirby","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12587","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Magistrates’ courts in England and Wales deal with around 95% of cases from start to completion, with many cases heard by lay magistrates. Despite this reliance on both the lower courts and decision making by lay adjudicators, it has been repeatedly argued that magistrates’ justice receives little attention. McBarnet (1981) argues that this is due to an ‘ideology of triviality’ in which the work of the magistrates’ courts is constructed as ‘trivial’, when in fact the cases heard are serious in nature and consequence. This article draws upon the framing of the ‘ideology of triviality’ to present findings from a qualitative study which examined contemporary workings of magistrates’ justice through court observations and interviews with lay court users. The findings suggest that the fallacy of ‘triviality’ continues to pervade magistrates’ justice. This has consequences for both those with personal experience of the magistrates’ courts and wider society.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"231-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12587","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claire Fitzpatrick, Katie Hunter, Jo Staines, Julie Shaw
{"title":"Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care-experienced girls and women in court","authors":"Claire Fitzpatrick, Katie Hunter, Jo Staines, Julie Shaw","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12588","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article focuses on rarely heard judicial perspectives, and the little explored challenges facing care-experienced girls and women in court. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with judges and magistrates, it reveals how the court process may be a disempowering and inadequate process for both the powerful and the powerless. Using the four elements of procedural justice as a lens to explore this – voice, trust, neutrality and respect – we highlight the immense challenges of achieving these goals for those with histories of being stigmatised and marginalised. In searching for solutions, the concept of ‘judicial rehabilitation’ enables consideration of how we might rehabilitate our systems and imagine a more hopeful approach to justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"145-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}