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Late-modern rehabilitation

The evolution of a penal strategy

Gwen Robinson

University of Sheffield, UK

In a number of recent analyses, rehabilitation has been portrayed as a casualty of processes of penal transformation, coming to be frequently characterized as 'dead' or 'irrelevant'. This article takes issue with such a characterization in the specific penal context of England & Wales, and seeks to explain why rehabilitation is currently enjoying a renewed legitimacy. The central argument is that rehabilitation, in this jurisdiction, has adapted and survived into the 21st century by transforming and re-marketing itself in important ways. Central to this transformative process has been a successful appeal to three dominant 'late modern' penal narratives: utilitarian, managerial and expressive. It is argued that in the contemporary (Anglo-Welsh) penal context, rehabilitation enjoys legitimacy to the extent that it is compatible with each of these narratives.

Key Words: Rehabilitation • risk • penal strategies • penal transformation • late-modern

Punishment & Society, Vol. 10, No. 4, 429-445 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1462474508095319
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