04457nam 22007455 450 991073372020332120240322061528.09783031007972303100797210.1007/978-3-031-00797-2(MiAaPQ)EBC7054655(Au-PeEL)EBL7054655(CKB)24294147100041(PPN)263902323(DE-He213)978-3-031-00797-2(EXLCZ)992429414710004120220728d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConservative Government Penal Policy 2015-2021 Austerity, Outsourcing and Punishment Redux? /by Christopher David Skinns1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (477 pages)Print version: Skinns, Christopher David Conservative Government Penal Policy 2015-2021 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031007965 1. Introduction -- 2. Critique -- 3. Courts and sentencing -- 4. Prisons -- 5. Probation -- 6. Bias and discrimination in the penal system -- 7. The pandemic and the penal system -- 8. Why has the penal crisis been exacerbated by recent government policy? -- 9. What is to be done? -- 10. Conclusion.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 change, whist combining this with insights derived from the sociological analysis of penal trends. Christopher David Skinns is an independent commentator. He has a long-standing interest in penal policy, first stimulated by his work with young offenders immediately after graduating. After completing postgraduate degrees at Sheffield University, UK, and Cambridge University, UK, he went on to further develop this interest by teaching criminology in higher education. He completed a PhD at Hull University, UK. After retiring from university teaching, he began work with the Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons. .CorrectionsPunishmentPolitical planningLaw and the social sciencesCrimeSociological aspectsCritical criminologySocial policyPrison and PunishmentPublic PolicySocio-Legal StudiesCrime and SocietyCritical CriminologySocial PolicyCorrections.Punishment.Political planning.Law and the social sciences.CrimeSociological aspects.Critical criminology.Social policy.Prison and Punishment.Public Policy.Socio-Legal Studies.Crime and Society.Critical Criminology.Social Policy.345.42364.01Skinns Christopher David1370296MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910733720203321Conservative government penal policy 2015-20213398446UNINA02797nam 2200685Ia 450 991017100530332120251116143013.01-134-95287-21-138-97475-71-134-95288-01-280-06019-097866100601910-203-20707-610.4324/9780203207079 (CKB)111056485510904(EBL)179798(OCoLC)646718149(SSID)ssj0000159106(PQKBManifestationID)11176971(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159106(PQKBWorkID)10159313(PQKB)10414618(MiAaPQ)EBC179798(Au-PeEL)EBL179798(CaPaEBR)ebr10060894(CaONFJC)MIL6019(OCoLC)50287284(EXLCZ)9911105648551090419900814d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom the mental patient to the person /Peter Barham and Robert Hayward1st ed.London Routledge19911 online resource (171 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-203-32484-6 0-415-04120-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE PERSON IN QUESTION; COMMUNITY MENTAL PATIENTS?; ON THE EDGE OF THE COMMON; BATTLING ON; REVALUATIONS; BEN: ONE PERSON'S JOURNEY; THE PERSON (MENTAL PATIENT) PREDICAMENT; Notes; References; IndexThe aim of contemporary mental health policy is to enable people who have had a severe mental illness to lead relatively independent lives in the community, rather than be sequestered permanently in the large mental hospitals. In recent years plans to hasten the closure of many of these hospitals have become controversial and generated sharp debate about community care. From the Mental Patient to the Person contributes to this debate through an exploration of the experiences of a group of people with a history of schizophrenic illness, who are living in the community.SchizophrenicsSchizophrenicsSocial conditionsSchizophrenicsMental health servicesSchizophrenics.SchizophrenicsSocial conditions.SchizophrenicsMental health services.362.2/6Barham Peter0Hayward Robert622322MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910171005303321From the mental patient to the person4198775UNINA