书目名称 | Conservative Government Penal Policy 2015-2021 |
副标题 | Austerity, Outsourci |
编辑 | Christopher David Skinns |
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概述 | Examines short and long term trends in penal policy including the continued preference for punitive managerialism.Provides a clear and detailed account of penal policy changes.Builds on from his previ |
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描述 | .This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021. Government penal policy is shown to have been often ineffective and costly, and to have revived efforts to push the system towards a disastrous combination of austerity, outsourcing and punishment that has exacerbated the penal crisis..This investigation has meant touching on topical debates dealing with the impact of resource scarcity on offenders‘ experiences of the penal system, the impact of an increasing emphasis on punishment on offenders’ sense of justice and fairness, the balance struck between infection control and offender welfare during the government handling of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and why successive Conservative governments have intransigently pursued a penal policy that has proved crisis-exacerbating..The overall conclusion reached is that penal policy is too important to be left to governments alone and needs to be recalibrated by a one-off inquiry, complemented by an on-going advisory body capable of requiring governments to ‘explain or change’. The book is distinctive in that it provides a critical review of penal policy c |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | populism; offender services; prison estate; Custodial services; administration of justice; Sentencing; pri |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00797-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-00799-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-00797-2 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |