Moral Performance
Moral Performance
The central thesis of this article ultimately suggests that modern day prisons are indeed degrading and in many instances inhuman or dehumanizing for that matter. The article argues that through the analysis of lived prison experience has greatly deteriorated in the past few decades or so, alongside equivalencies by international variances and comparisons. Study Hypotheses encompass recent empirical and scholarly penological (research) studies and evaluations of modern day prisons and moral quality of life within these institutions, by means of principles such as liberty, human rights, respect, humanity, fairness, etc. The primary results of the above implemented research clearly suggests that prison life and its experience in most recent decades has shown high variable levels of moral and emotional climates and distress of its inmates. However it must be said that this research suggested that various prisons are indeed more survivable than the next, while as a whole, the differences implemented are still by result of varied levels of concepts such as operationalized safety, respect, humanity, dignity, fairness, and the altercation of proper use of authority amongst prisoners.
I truly believe that in relevance to the associated research, inmate institutional conditions have deteriorated significantly as the article emphasizes further, an increased rate of suicide levels in past years by again suggestive means of seriously lacking conditions, relationships, and treatment of prisoners on a global level. The article research also suggests that prison officers are more commonly “bending the rules to bridge the gap between those rules and their own human instincts” (Liebling, 2011), while affirming these small yet collectively imperative differences do matter and is an immense commencing point for implication of correctional practice. Alongside, the suggested conclusion that human rights and moral measurement standards in penology should be conveyed closer in unison in order to deepen the discussion of prison life and its ultimate experience (Liebling, 2011).
References:
Liebling, A. (2011). Moral performance, inhuman and degrading treatment and prison pain. Punishment & Society, 13(5), 530-550. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
