Andrew Millie
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420947
- eISBN:
- 9781447303336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420947.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
In 2005, through Tony Blair, the UK focused on the agenda of respectful citizenry. In line with this agenda of enforcing respect, the government established the ‘Respect Task Force’ in September 2005 ...
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In 2005, through Tony Blair, the UK focused on the agenda of respectful citizenry. In line with this agenda of enforcing respect, the government established the ‘Respect Task Force’ in September 2005 and launched the Respect Action Plan on January 2006. In this cross-departmental agenda, the aim was to secure respect, with a heavy emphasis on enforcing standards of behaviour. This book presents a collection of chapters that consider the question of who decides behavioural acceptability in the UK and what respectable behaviour is. The aim of this book is to consider the broader themes of the Respect Agenda such as: respectful city living; respectful young people and children; respectful families and parenting; and issues of diversity, values and identity. This book provides a critical account of a particular phase of government policy, but will have a longer-lasting and broader relevance to discussions of behavioural acceptability and accompanying moral and behavioural politics. In addition to discussing the content and focus of this book, this introductory chapter also discusses other broad themes of respect such as morality, mutuality, reciprocity and maintaining standards of behaviour in public spaces.Less
In 2005, through Tony Blair, the UK focused on the agenda of respectful citizenry. In line with this agenda of enforcing respect, the government established the ‘Respect Task Force’ in September 2005 and launched the Respect Action Plan on January 2006. In this cross-departmental agenda, the aim was to secure respect, with a heavy emphasis on enforcing standards of behaviour. This book presents a collection of chapters that consider the question of who decides behavioural acceptability in the UK and what respectable behaviour is. The aim of this book is to consider the broader themes of the Respect Agenda such as: respectful city living; respectful young people and children; respectful families and parenting; and issues of diversity, values and identity. This book provides a critical account of a particular phase of government policy, but will have a longer-lasting and broader relevance to discussions of behavioural acceptability and accompanying moral and behavioural politics. In addition to discussing the content and focus of this book, this introductory chapter also discusses other broad themes of respect such as morality, mutuality, reciprocity and maintaining standards of behaviour in public spaces.
Andrew Millie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420947
- eISBN:
- 9781447303336
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420947.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
Over recent years, the government focus on anti-social behaviour has been replaced by a focus on respect. Tony Blair's ‘Respect Action Plan’ was launched in January 2006, Gordon Brown spoke of ‘duty, ...
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Over recent years, the government focus on anti-social behaviour has been replaced by a focus on respect. Tony Blair's ‘Respect Action Plan’ was launched in January 2006, Gordon Brown spoke of ‘duty, responsibility, and respect for others’, and the Conservatives have launched their ‘Real Respect Agenda’. Within government, the respect agenda has a cross-departmental influence, but like anti-social behaviour before it, ‘respect’ has not yet been tightly defined. And what is it about the contemporary UK that sees respect as lacking, that in order to tackle anti-social behaviour we first need to ‘secure respect’? Until now, there has been little attention in the academic and policy literature on the government's push for respect. This book contains ten chapters from leading academics in the field that consider the origins, current interpretations and possible future for the Respect Agenda. The chapters explore various policy and theoretical discourses relating to ‘respect’, behavioural expectations and anti-social behaviour. The book follows the five key themes of: respect in context; young people and children; communities and families; city living; and issues of identity and values.Less
Over recent years, the government focus on anti-social behaviour has been replaced by a focus on respect. Tony Blair's ‘Respect Action Plan’ was launched in January 2006, Gordon Brown spoke of ‘duty, responsibility, and respect for others’, and the Conservatives have launched their ‘Real Respect Agenda’. Within government, the respect agenda has a cross-departmental influence, but like anti-social behaviour before it, ‘respect’ has not yet been tightly defined. And what is it about the contemporary UK that sees respect as lacking, that in order to tackle anti-social behaviour we first need to ‘secure respect’? Until now, there has been little attention in the academic and policy literature on the government's push for respect. This book contains ten chapters from leading academics in the field that consider the origins, current interpretations and possible future for the Respect Agenda. The chapters explore various policy and theoretical discourses relating to ‘respect’, behavioural expectations and anti-social behaviour. The book follows the five key themes of: respect in context; young people and children; communities and families; city living; and issues of identity and values.
Dawn E. Stephen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420282
- eISBN:
- 9781447301493
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420282.003.0019
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
Despite the optimism that pervaded New Labour's election in 1997, and some unquestioned successes of his premiership, Tony Blair's detrimental legacy is a society seemingly less tolerant, more ...
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Despite the optimism that pervaded New Labour's election in 1997, and some unquestioned successes of his premiership, Tony Blair's detrimental legacy is a society seemingly less tolerant, more condemnatory, and less just than when he entered Downing Street. This chapter examines profound deficiencies in the bequest of ‘respect’ by responding to Blair's own challenge, announced in his speech to accompany the launch of the Respect Action Plan. Fortified by the intention to further strengthen summary powers and civil measures, the remedies outlined in the Respect Action Plan — dealing with ‘challenging’ families, improving behaviour and attendance in schools, and increased activities for children and young people — suggest that the problems within marginalised communities can be addressed by focusing on the symptoms of social malaise. These symptoms are identified as poor parenting, weak familial relationships, truancy and exclusion, neighbourhood disorder and neglect and early involvement in anti-social behaviour. The politics of respect, however, are not promoting inclusion, security and justice, but instead creating long-term insecurities and injustices, of much greater threat to communities and individuals.Less
Despite the optimism that pervaded New Labour's election in 1997, and some unquestioned successes of his premiership, Tony Blair's detrimental legacy is a society seemingly less tolerant, more condemnatory, and less just than when he entered Downing Street. This chapter examines profound deficiencies in the bequest of ‘respect’ by responding to Blair's own challenge, announced in his speech to accompany the launch of the Respect Action Plan. Fortified by the intention to further strengthen summary powers and civil measures, the remedies outlined in the Respect Action Plan — dealing with ‘challenging’ families, improving behaviour and attendance in schools, and increased activities for children and young people — suggest that the problems within marginalised communities can be addressed by focusing on the symptoms of social malaise. These symptoms are identified as poor parenting, weak familial relationships, truancy and exclusion, neighbourhood disorder and neglect and early involvement in anti-social behaviour. The politics of respect, however, are not promoting inclusion, security and justice, but instead creating long-term insecurities and injustices, of much greater threat to communities and individuals.
