The Management of Change in Criminal Justice

1. Front Matter

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2. Who Knows Best? A Question About How Criminal Policy Change Takes Place

   1. Who Knows Best? A Question About How Criminal Policy Change Takes Place

      • Sotirios Santatzoglou, Martin Wasik

      Pages 1-29

3. Making Policy Choices

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The End or the Beginning of an Era? Politics and Punishment Under Margaret Thatcher’s Government

      • David Faulkner

      Pages 33-48

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

      • Roger Smith

      Pages 49-63

   4. Understanding the Marketisation of the Probation Service Through an Interpretative Policy Framework

      • Rose Broad, Jon Spencer

      Pages 64-79

   5. ‘Community’ Knows Best? Community Involvement in Criminal Justice

      • Jessica Jacobson

      Pages 80-97

   6. Continuity and Change in Prisons

      • Rob Allen

      Pages 98-112

4. Developing Policy Through Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. ‘We Were the System’: Practitioners’ Experiences and the Juvenile Justice Mosaic in the 1980s

      • Sotirios Santatzoglou

      Pages 115-133

   3. From Planning to Practice: Pioneering Community Service Orders in England and Wales, 1972–1974

      • John Harding

      Pages 134-151

   4. The Management of Community Justice Services in Scotland: Policy-Making and the Dynamics of Central and Local Control

      • Katrina Morrison

      Pages 152-169

   5. Developing Local Cultures in Criminal Justice Policy-Making: The Case of Youth Justice in Wales

      • Stewart Field

      Pages 170-185

   6. Regulating Street Sex Workers: A Reflection on the Use and Reform of Anti-Social Behaviour Measures

      • Theresa Lynch

      Pages 186-205

5. Managing Policy Implementation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Managing Magistrates’ Courts: A Loss of Local Control

      • Penelope Gibbs

      Pages 209-225

   3. The Crown Court: Unified Structure or Local Justice?

      • Martin Wasik

      Pages 226-240

   4. The Youth Court: Time for Reform?

      • Alexandra Wigzell, Chris Stanley

      Pages 241-258

   5. Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence

      • Anne Worrall, Mary Corcoran

      Pages 259-274

   6. Wielding the Sword of Damocles: The Challenges and Opportunities in Reforming Police Out-of-Court Disposals in England and Wales

      • Peter Neyroud, Molly Slothower

      Pages 275-292

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.

• criminal justice
• management
• policy
• probation
• prison
• criminology
• anti-social behaviour
• community
• Familie
• Government
• police
• policy-making
• politics
• punishment
• service
• Sex

• Keele University, UK

  Martin Wasik, Sotirios Santatzoglou

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

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