scholarly journals ‘Tightness’, recognition and penal power

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Ben Crewe ◽  
Alice Ievins
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Sex Offences ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Individual

Prison scholarship has tended to focus on the pains and frustrations that result from the use and over-use of penal power. Yet the absence of such power and the subjective benefits of its grip are also worthy of attention. This article begins by drawing on recent literature and research findings to develop the concept of ‘tightness’ beyond its initial formulation. Drawing primarily on data from a study of men convicted of sex offences, it goes on to explain that, in some circumstances, the reach and hold of penal power are not experienced as oppressive and undesirable, and, indeed, may be welcomed. Conversely, institutional inattention and an absence of grip may be experienced as painful. Prisons, then, can be ‘loose’ or ‘lax’ as well as ‘tight’. The article then discusses the different ways in which prisons exercise grip, and, in doing so, recognise or misrecognise the subjectivity of the individual prisoner. It concludes by identifying the connections between this ‘ground-up’ analysis of the relative legitimacy of different forms of penal intervention and recent discussions in penal theory about the proper role of the state in communicating censure and promoting personal repentance and change.

Reflections on Institutional Cosmopolitanism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beardsworth
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Change Mitigation

With its moral commitment to the individual, cosmopolitanism has often downplayed the role of the state in cosmopolitan commitments and their practices. There is, however, emerging concern to put the state back into cosmopolitan concerns. This chapter argues that two outstanding reasons for this intellectual move are of an institutional and political nature. First, despite the recent pluralization of global actors, states remain the major agents of change within a (post-Western) system of states; both the moral and political purpose of the state should therefore be aligned with global imperatives. Second, a clearly formulated “marriage” between the global and the national is required to line up institutional motivation for enlightened global policy. This chapter argues, accordingly, for cosmopolitan state responsibilities toward the provision of global public goods (examples include nuclear disarmament, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development).

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Mike Allen ◽  
Lars Benjaminsen ◽  
Eoin O’Sullivan ◽  
Nicholas Pleace
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
The State ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Administrative Culture ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State And Market ◽  
The Individual

Chapter 7 draws together some of the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of three small European countries in responding to homelessness. It is clear that responses to homelessness are embedded and enmeshed in the political and administrative culture of the individual countries, particularly the role of the state, both centrally and locally, in the provision of housing, welfare, and social services. Homelessness cannot be responded to as a separate issue from this broader context, and this is particularly the case in Finland and Ireland, where the roles of the state and market are understood very differently.

Neither justice nor charity? Kant on ‘general injustice’

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate A. Moran
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Past Injustice ◽  
The Individual

AbstractWe often make a distinction between what we owe as a matter of repayment, and what we give or offer out of charity. But how shall we describe our obligations to fellow citizens when we are in a position to be charitable because of a past injustice on the part of the state? This essay examines the moral implications of past injustice by considering Immanuel Kant’s remarks on this phenomenon in his lectures and writings. In particular, it discusses the role of the state and the individual in addressing the problem.

scholarly journals La atención educativa de la población en Argentina en las últimas décadas: Entre la distribución ilusoria, la modernización eficientista y los discursos del derecho y la inclusión

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Clotilde Riquelme ◽  
Natalia Herger ◽  
Jorgelina S. Sassera
Keyword(s):  
Educational Inequality ◽  
The State ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Social State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Spatial Area

The paper centers on issues around the educational attention of the population through time in Argentina alongside the interpretation of the role of the State and the orientation of the public policies. The paper recognizes education as a social right of the population, including access to all educational levels from initial to university. First, the analysis supports the idea of a chronicity and worsening of educational inequality since the changes in the so-called welfare or social State that sustained the free and equal distribution of education as a discourse of citizen integration until the advent of a neoliberal policy and efficient modernization in the 1990s that continues as a policy-administrative matrix. The second part addresses the research findings concerning problems of benefited and excluded population from education in recent decades. The results refer to provincial differences, to estimations of the educational social debt with the infantile, adolescent and adult populations, and with limitations in implementing programs of inclusion throughout local territories, a spatial area that expresses what is possible for school and real actors.

scholarly journals Cyber security: the role of the state in protecting society and individual personality in maintaining interethnic peace

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1 SI) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Viktor Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Cyber Defense ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Individual

Cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, information wars, cyber defense, cyberspace - concepts that have recently increasingly filled the space around everyone. More and more often we hear these words, more and more often they play an important role. The role of the state in the protection of the national social space, the protection of the individual in this information confrontation is also growing. Equally important in our fleeting world is the growing problem of protecting interethnic peace in the country, and especially in such polyethnic states as Ukraine. Nowadays, even relatively mono-ethnic states, due to active migration processes and significant economic changes, have to deal with the security of the interethnic space. After all, the security of the information space is now, without a doubt, also the security of the state.

Feminism and Child Daycare

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Randall
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Class ◽  
The State ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Second Wave

ABSTRACTThis article explores some of the main reasons why feminist mobilisation around the issue of child daycare in Britain has been so limited and its impact so modest. It describes this mobilisation, comparing it with experience in other countries and with mobilisation on other issues. It suggests that the modest achievement to date is largely attributable to factors other than the lack of feminist pressure. Indeed feminist reservations were partly a realistic response to these external constraints. But they were also a consequence of the particular character of second wave feminism in Britain and of the questions posed by the issue of childcare for feminists. These questions included the nature and proper role of the state, motherhood, the value of paid employment for women, social class and the tension between short and long-term strategies for social change.

Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment: Sweden as a Test Case for the Ideas of Richard Sennett

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Stanworth
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The State ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Richard Sennett

AbstractThis paper examines how Protestant beliefs can influence orientations to the natural and built environment. Sweden is taken as a test case for a critical evaluation of Richard Sennett's American-focused claims that Protestant-induced anxieties encourage moves to create bland, neutralised environments in which temptation and contact with distractingly different others can be minimised. The paper documents ways in which Swedish environmental orientations fail to fit with Sennett's account and elaborates how Protestantism has the potential to generate a wider range of outcomes than he recognises. It then suggests that variations in the impact the same religion may have produced in the Swedish and American context might be linked to cross-societal differences in the relation between the individual and the collective, and in the role of the state.

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