Making good? A study of how senior policy makers narrate policy reversal
Making good? A study of how senior policy makers narrate policy reversal
This paper provides insights into the predominant styles of political reasoning in England and Wales that inform penal policy reform. It does so in relation to a particular development that constitutes a dramatic, perhaps even unique, wholesale reversal of a previously introduced market-based criminal justice delivery model. This is the ‘unification’ of probation services in England and Wales, which unwound the consequential privatization reforms introduced less than a decade earlier. This paper draws on in-depth interviews with national policy participants to present a narrative reconstruction of the unification of probation services in England and Wales. Analogies with the desistance literature are drawn upon in order to encapsulate the tensions posed for policy makers as they seek to enact penal policy reform.
penal politics, penal change, probation, privatization, insourcing
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Carr, Nicola
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Millings, Matthew
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Robinson, Gwen
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Surridge, Eleanor
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Annison, Harry
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Carr, Nicola
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Millings, Matthew
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Robinson, Gwen
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Annison, Harry, Burke, Lol, Carr, Nicola, Millings, Matthew, Robinson, Gwen and Surridge, Eleanor
(2023)
Making good? A study of how senior policy makers narrate policy reversal.
British Journal of Criminology.
(doi:10.1093/bjc/azad054).
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Abstract
This paper provides insights into the predominant styles of political reasoning in England and Wales that inform penal policy reform. It does so in relation to a particular development that constitutes a dramatic, perhaps even unique, wholesale reversal of a previously introduced market-based criminal justice delivery model. This is the ‘unification’ of probation services in England and Wales, which unwound the consequential privatization reforms introduced less than a decade earlier. This paper draws on in-depth interviews with national policy participants to present a narrative reconstruction of the unification of probation services in England and Wales. Analogies with the desistance literature are drawn upon in order to encapsulate the tensions posed for policy makers as they seek to enact penal policy reform.
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Accepted/In Press date: 17 September 2023
Keywords:
penal politics, penal change, probation, privatization, insourcing
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/482677
ISSN: 0007-0955
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Lol Burke
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Nicola Carr
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Matthew Millings
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Gwen Robinson
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Eleanor Surridge
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