Moral Agent or Actuarial Subject Risk and Canadian Women's Imprisonment

Few have examined the moral and political aspects of categories of risk, or the differential impact of actuarial risk claims on different populations. This analysis is intended to complement the growing body of literature analysing the implementation of actuarial or risk-based assessments of behavio...

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Published inTheoretical criminology Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 71 - 94
Main Author HANNAH-MOFFAT, KELLY
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London SAGE Publications 01.02.1999
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Ambiguity
Canada
Ethics
Female Offenders
Fractured
Imprisonment
Insurance
Political factors
Prisoners
Risk
Risk Assessment
Risk behavior
Risk factors
Risk management
Theorists
Women
Canada
Canada
risk
governmentality
prison
theory
women
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Summary:Few have examined the moral and political aspects of categories of risk, or the differential impact of actuarial risk claims on different populations. This analysis is intended to complement the growing body of literature analysing the implementation of actuarial or risk-based assessments of behaviours and situations in a variety of contexts. It examines wider claims of risk theorists in light of recent developments in Canadian women's imprisonment. Based on an analysis of a proposed model of risk assessment for Canadian women prisoners, I argue: that in practical instances of governing the concept of `risk' is ambiguous, fractured and flexible; that actuarial techniques of assessing women prisoners' risks tend to redefine needs as risk factors; and that subjective disciplinary techniques of governing co-exist and interrelate with actuarial techniques of risk management.
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ISSN:1362-4806
1461-7439
DOI:10.1177/1362480699003001004