‘Penal supervision can help and can hold people, but it also hurts them, their families and their communities’. Critically assess this claim.

‘Penal supervision can help and can hold people, but it also hurts them, their families and their communities’. Critically assess this claim.

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Penal supervision is the dispersal of discipline outside of prison that pervades into the everyday life of the supervised, their families and communities because this form of “deviant control” is not confined to a physical space but the confinement constantly moves with those who are supervised.

Furthermore, the increasing quantity of the supervised decreases the capacity to understand and be empathetic towards the subjective experiences – simultaneously affecting the rehabilitation and integration process and prolonging the punishment time.

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