👏 Relatedly, Bourdieu has a nice explanation of taste in art and music using Habitus and structure. It may go some way to theorising the why of the why (re: your final sentence)

Taylor’s “cautious optimism” ignores history, research, and macro trends.

A prison can’t change if its system is designed to reproduce itself.

And (yet again) not one mention from HMIP about historic conditions, legacy outcomes, and child imprisonment/ legitimacy.
They are complicit in reproducing children’s harm whilst they continue to ‘play the game’ with these repetitive & superficial ‘findings’

Congratulations to everyone involved 👏 Looking forward to reading!

I think it's part:
1. #TechnoUtopianism - idea that new tech will solve extant problems cheaply
2. Ignorance of the rapacious nature of #SurveillanceCapitalism, the #CodedBias within, and the problems/harms forthcoming
3. Outdated neoliberalism and its desire to both outsource yet maintain control

Time for an open letter to call for a re-think & safeguards?

Timpson says it will be a ‘responsible and proportionate’ approach but there is no explanation of what oversight looks like. Feels like a recipe for disaster.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

& then MoJ turn around and say ‘let’s integrate AI into our everyday practice’

I want to believe its negligence, but it feels more sinister than that