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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作为普遍惩罚的社区制裁：一篇评论文章

涉及监督的社区制裁在犯罪学研究中是一个被忽视的领域，在政治、媒体和公共话语中被广泛视为“非监狱”和“放行”。一本重要的新书，弗格斯·麦克尼尔 (Fergus McNeill) 的《无处不在的惩罚》(Pervasive Punishment)（2019 年），试图将“大众监督的意义”作为一种生活体验来纠正这种忽视。他利用一个短篇小说和与被监管者相关的照片和歌曲相关项目，构建了一种“反视觉”犯罪学，阐明了监管构成“普遍惩罚”的方式。本文回顾了 McNeill 的论点并评估其在澳大利亚背景下的适用性。