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.
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1 Who Knows Best? A Question About How Criminal Policy Change Takes Place |
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Part I Making Policy Choices |
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2 The End or the Beginning of an Era? Politics and Punishment Under Margaret Thatcher's Government |
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3 Troubled, Troubling or Troublesome? Troubled Families and the Changing Shape of Youth Justice |
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4 Understanding the Marketisation of the Probation Service Through an Interpretative Policy Framework |
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5 `Community' Knows Best? Community Involvement in Criminal Justice |
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6 Continuity and Change in Prisons |
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Part II Developing Policy Through Practice |
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7 `We Were the System': Practitioners' Experiences and the Juvenile Justice Mosaic in the 1980s |
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8 From Planning to Practice: Pioneering Community Service Orders in England and Wales, 1972--1974 |
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9 The Management of Community Justice Services in Scotland: Policy-Making and the Dynamics of Central and Local Control |
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10 Developing Local Cultures in Criminal Justice Policy-Making: The Case of Youth Justice in Wales |
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11 Regulating Street Sex Workers: A Reflection on the Use and Reform of Anti-Social Behaviour Measures |
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Part III Managing Policy Implementation |
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12 Managing Magistrates' Courts: A Loss of Local Control |
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13 The Crown Court: Unified Structure or Local Justice? |
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14 The Youth Court: Time for Reform? |
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15 Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence |
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16 Wielding the Sword of Damocles: The Challenges and Opportunities in Reforming Police Out-of-Court Disposals in England and Wales |
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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
