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With Michael Adler (Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh) There is a long, complex and contested relationship between penal practices and institutions and those associated with the state’s roles in social assistance and welfare. Whilst we commonly think of punishment primarily in terms of retribution, blaming and reproof and the kinds of penalties and deprivations that flow from these, it is also clear that ideas of correction and social training extend deep into the history of penal institutions. Similarly, whereas we often consider welfare mainly in terms of helping, supporting and compensating, welfare systems have frequently also been influenced by concerns with conditionality, propriety and the emendation of conduct. How does this relationship look today? Are we in some sense seeing a resurgence of the notion of the ‘welfare sanction’? What are the implications for the ways in which we study the roles of the state and allied institutions both in punishment and in welfare? This seminar was supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s research network on ‘Punishment, democracy and citizenship’.| Period | 23 Jan 2015 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map |