Community sanctions involving supervision are a neglected field in criminological research and are widely viewed in political, media and public discourse as 'not prison' and a 'let-off'. An important new book, Pervasive Punishment by Fergus McNeill (2019), redresses this neglect by attempting to 'make sense of mass supervision' as a lived experience. Utilising a short story and allied projects with supervisees involving photographs and songs, he constructs a 'counter-visual' criminology that elucidates the ways supervision constitutes 'pervasive punishment'. This article reviews McNeill's argument and assesses its applicability in the Australian context.
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Brown, D. (2019, December 10). Community sanctions as pervasive punishment: A review essay. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Queensland University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.5204/IJCJSD.V9I2.1208
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