JSB173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Victim Support, Neoliberalism
JSB173 Understanding the Criminal Justice System
Week 11 Lecture Notes Part 2
Key Drivers of Change
Feminism/Women’s Movement
• Victims of DV and sexual violence need
specialised care and assistance
• Grassroots and political
• Women’s refuge and rape crisis
Legal Services
• Aboriginal and community legal
services
• Advocating for the rights of victims and
issues within the CJS
Victim Surveys (1967 onwards)
• Victims as resources are counted as
knowable and useful
Garland Culture of Control
• Politicisation of the victim
• Victim interests co-opted by policy
interests
• Declining faith in the criminal justice
system
• Tough on crime
Neoliberalism and Service Delivery
• Victim support
• Rolling back state responsibility
• This support embedded within wider
‘individualisation of emotionality’
Culture
of
Control
Return of the
victim
Change in
emotional tone
Rise in
punitiveness
Decline in
rehabilitation as
an ideal
Crisis
Managerialism
Expansion of
crime prevention
Expanding the
private
Reinvention of
prison
New populism
Proetcting the
public
