The Management of Change in Criminal Justice

This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners. It questions whether diversity in implementation implies policy failure or a sign of healthy activism among local practitioners.lied by practitioners.

Autorentext
Rob Allen, Justice and Prisons Rose Broad, University of Manchester, UK Mary Corcoran, Keele University, UK David Faulkner, University of Oxford, UK Stewart Field, Cardiff Law School, UK Penelope Gibbs, Transform Justice, UK John Harding, Inner London Probation Service, UK Jessica Jacobson, Birkbeck University of London, UK Theresa Lynch, University of Birmingham, UK Katrina Morrison, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Peter Neyroud, University of Cambridge, UK Sotirios Santatzoglou, Keele University, UK Molly Slothower, University of Maryland, USA Roger Smith, University of Durham, UK Jon Spencer, University of Manchester, UK Chris Stanley, Former Magistrate and Trustee of the Michael Sieff Foundation, UK Martin Wasik, Keele University, UK Alexandra Wigzell, University of Cambridge, UK Anne Worrall, Keele University, UK

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Sotirios Santatzoglou and Martin Wasik

   PART I: MAKING POLICY CHOICES

   2. David Faulkner; The Beginning or the End of an Era? Politics and Punishment under Margaret Thatcher's Government

   3. Roger Smith; Troubled, Troubling or Troublesome? Troubled Families and the Changing Shape of Youth Justice

   4. Rose Broad and Jon Spencer; Understanding the Marketization of the Probation Service Through an Interpretative Policy Framework

   5. Jessica Jacobson; 'Community' Knows Best? Community Involvement in Criminal Justice

   6. Rob Allen; Continuity and Change in Prisons

   PART II: DEVELOPING POLICY THROUGH PRACTICE

   7. Sotirios Santatzoglou; 'We Were the System': Practitioners' Experiences and the Juvenile Justice Mosaic During the 1980s

   8. John Harding; From Planning to Practice: Pioneering Community Service Orders in England and Wales

   9. Katrina Morrison; The Management of Community Justice Services in Post-Devolution Scotland: The Battle for Central and Local Control

   10. Stewart Field, Developing Local Cultures in Criminal Justice Policy-Making: The Case of Youth Justice in Wales

   11. Theresa Lynch; Regulating Street Sex Workers: A Reflection on the Use and Reform of Anti-Social Behaviour Measures

   PART III: MANAGING POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

   12. Penelope Gibbs; Managing Magistrates' Courts: A Loss of Local Control

   13. Martin Wasik; The Crown Court: Unified Structure or Local Justice?

   14. Alexandra Wigzell and Chris Stanley; The Youth Court: Time for Reform?

   15. Anne Worrall and Mary Corcoran; Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence

   16. Peter Neyroud and Molly Slothower; Wielding the Sword of Damocles: The Challenges and Opportunities in Reforming Police Out-of-Court Disposals in England and Wales