Understanding Modernisation In Criminal Justice / Edition 1

by Paul Senior, Chris Crowther-Dowey

Overview

How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? What lessons can be drawn to influence the future shape of criminal justice policy? "Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice" is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving links between new public management and modernization as well as proposing a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of policies on each criminal justice agency in England and Wales.

A variety of political strategies and tactics are identified, which contribute to the reform process. The extent of vulnerability, capacity for resistance or potential for transformation in each individual key agency is explored, including strategies of censure, compliance and commitment. The authors go on to analyse how these processes have occurred in an international context, in particular, the relationship between drivers of global crime and their impact in the context of England and Wales. This will challenge policy makers in all jurisdictions to consider the potential impact of new public management.

The book concludes with a look ahead, anticipating developments in criminal justice sector after the departure of Tony Blair and potentially post a new Labour administration.

"Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice" is invaluable reading for those concerned with the administration of criminal justice at both a policy and managerial level; from students and academics wishing to understand the way agencies are responding to this agenda through to penal reformers and commentators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335220656
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Series:	Crime and Justice Ser.
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword     ix
List of acronyms     xi
Introduction     1
Part 1     13
Understanding the concept of modernisation     15
Introducing modernisation (1) and modernisation (2)     18
Modernisation and crime in context: drivers in global crime     26
The modernisation of governance     27
Modernisation as a method of governance     35
Conclusions     36
Notes     38
Further reading     38
From welfare to New Public Manageralism: 1945-97     39
The growth and bureaucratization of the welfare state     40
The censure and dismantling of the welfare state     45
The managerial society     54
Notes     57
Further reading     58
Understanding the modernisation policy process     59
Introduction     59
From New Public Management to modernisation     69
Towards a framework for analysis     73
Further reading     77
Part 2     79
Modernisation and youth justice     81
Introduction     81
Contextual outline     82
Reforming youth justice     87
Key dimensions of modernisation     88
Permanence of paradox     97
Conclusion     98
Further reading     99
Modernisation and the correctional services     100
Introduction     100
Contextual outline     101
Reforming the prison and probation services     102
Key dimensions of modernisation     104
The permanence of paradox     114
Conclusion     117
Further reading     118
Modernisation and community safety     119
Contextual outline     120
New Labour and the neo-liberal legacy     123
The modernisation of community safety: key dimensions     126
Conclusions     139
Notes     140
Further reading     140
Modernisation and the court system     142
Introduction     142
Contextual outline     143
Reforming the court system     147
Key dimensions of modernisation     148
Permanence of paradox     155
Conclusion     157
Further reading     158
Modernisation and the police     159
Historical context      160
Drivers of global crime: modernisation and policing     164
Policing: key dimensions of modernisation     168
Conclusion     180
Notes     181
Further reading     181
Modernisation and the voluntary and community sector     182
Introduction     183
Contextual outline     183
Reforming the VCS     189
Key dimensions of modernisation     190
Permanence of paradox     198
Conclusion     200
Further reading     201
Part 3     203
Conclusions and ways forward     205
The key dimensions of modernisation: some emergent and evolving themes     207
Modernising criminal justice: lessons to be learnt for an international analysis     221
The futures of modernisation     223
The key dimensions of modernisation: future paradoxes     227
References     231
Index     248