For our second event, we are thrilled to welcome Dr Jason Warr (University of Nottingham) to speak on 'How Expert Discourses Create Ethical and Moral Blindness in Carceral Settings'.

Presentation details:

This presentation explores how varying forms of ‘expertise’ in and around the carceral landscape can result in diverse forms of Ethical and Moral Blindness. Here, using concepts developed in my book Forensic Psychology: Prisons, Power, and Vulnerability, I explain that ethical and moral blindness is when penal institutional aims (and their disciplinary capital) results in practices that are either blind to the impacts of one’s practice on individuals in prison, or in blindness to the very people central to one’s work (respectively). Here I explore three forms of penal expertise: Forensic Psychology, Prison Security, and the National Review Committee. I will argue that in each of these areas we can see the toxic and fundamentally unethical practices that arise out of ‘buy-in’ to the penal scriptural economy.