LEADER 07942nam 2200457 450 001 9910733720203321 005 20230107132358.0 010 $a3-031-00797-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7054655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7054655 035 $a(CKB)24294147100041 035 $a(PPN)263902323 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924294147100041 100 $a20230107d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConservative government penal policy 2015-2021 $eausterity, outsourcing and punishment redux? /$fChristopher David Skinns 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer International Publishing,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (477 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Skinns, Christopher David Conservative Government Penal Policy 2015-2021 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031007965 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- References , -- 2: Critique -- Introduction -- The 'Penal Philosophy' of the Conservative Governments in the 2015-2021 Period -- The Nature of the Penal Crisis -- The Constituents of the Penal Crisis: Material and Moral Deficits -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Courts and Sentencing -- Introduction -- Key Conservative Government Sentencing Policies 2015-2020: Internal Critique -- Court Administration -- Maintaining the Legal Aid Austerity Regime -- 'Transforming' Courts -- Outsourcing Financial Penalty Debt Enforcement -- Sentencing -- 'Toughening' Custodial Sentencing -- Reducing the Extent of Automatic Early Prison Release for Some Serious Offenders -- Lengthening Prison Sentences for Some Serious Offenders -- Lengthening Prison Sentences for Terrorist and Other Serious Offenders -- Extending Whole-Life Sentences for Child Murderers -- De Facto Harsher Custodial Sentencing -- The Retention of Short Prison Sentences -- 'Toughening' Community Sentencing -- Preserving the Punitive Status Quo -- Introducing More Punitive and Incapacitative Measures -- Sobriety Tags -- Global Positioning System (GPS)-Enabled Electronic Monitoring -- The Rehabilitation of Community and Suspended Sentence Order Treatment Requirements -- Financial Impositions -- Conservative Government Sentencing Policies 2015-2020: An External Critique -- Material Crisis: 2015-2020 -- Moral Crisis: 2015-2020 -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Prisons -- Introduction -- The 'Transformation' of the Prison Estate -- The 'New for Old' Policy -- The Expansion of Prison Places -- The 'Transformation' of the Organisation and Operation of Prisons -- Marketising Prisons and Prison Services at Any Cost? -- Increasing Prison Staffing -- The Key Worker Scheme (KWS). 327 $aPrisoner Reform and the Provision of Purposeful Activity -- Control and Security -- The 'Transformation' of Prison External Scrutiny Arrangements -- Conservative Government Prisons Policy 2015-2020: An External Critique -- Material Crisis: 2015-2020 -- Moral Crisis: 2015-2020 -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Probation -- Introduction -- Conservative Governments and the Probation Outsourcing Disaster -- Government Responses to the Prison Recall Debacle -- Government Responses to the Through-the-Gate (TTG) Services Debacle -- Government Attempts to Improve the Community Sentence/Suspended Sentence Order Practice -- Tougher -- Smarter -- Reformative -- Probation-External Critique -- Material Crisis: 2015-2020 -- Moral Crisis -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Bias and Discrimination in the Penal System -- Introduction -- Regulatory Framework -- Social Context -- Socio-economic Disadvantage and the Penal System -- 'Race' and the Penal System -- Reference Document -- Responses to the Lammy Report -- Emergence of the 'Job Done' Approach -- Race Bias in the Penal System to March 2020 -- Women -- Reference Document -- Corston: 10 Years On -- Corston: 13 Years On -- Socio-economic, Racial and Gender-Based Bias and the Penal Crisis -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: The Pandemic and the Penal System -- Introduction -- The Pandemic and England and Wales -- The Spread of the Virus in England and Wales -- Government Policy and the Pandemic in England -- The Response of the Westminster Government to the Pandemic in England 2020-2021 -- The Pandemic and the Penal System: The Government Response -- Courts -- The 'Emergency Response' or Exceptional Delivery Model (EDM) -- The Criminal Courts Recovery Plan -- The Impact of the Exceptional Delivery Models and Recovery Plans on Existing Court Policies. 327 $aThe Impact of the Pandemic Policies on Courts: Internal and External Critique -- Prisons -- The Threat of New Coronavirus to Prisons -- Measuring COVID-19 Spread in Prisons: Infections and Deaths -- The Exceptional Delivery Model in Prisons: De facto 'Closure' -- The Recovery of Prisons? -- The Impact of the Pandemic Measures on Existing Prison Policies -- The Overall Success of the Government's Prison Pandemic Response in Its Own Terms and How It Impacted on the Penal Crisis -- Probation -- The Exceptional Delivery Model (EDM) and Probation -- The Probation Recovery Plan -- The Impact of the Pandemic Management on Existing Probation Policies -- The Overall Success of the Probation Pandemic Response in the Governments' Own Terms and How It Impacted on the Penal Crisis -- Bias, the Pandemic and the Penal System -- Conclusion -- References -- 8: Why Has the Penal Crisis Been Exacerbated by Recent Government Policy? -- Introduction -- 'Contested' and 'Hegemonic' Neo-liberalism 1979-2008 -- Broader Context: Ternary Regime and the Vanquishment of the Offender: Pre-eighteenth Century -- Broader Context: Proprietarian Regime and Disciplining of the Offender: Mid-Eighteenth Century-1910 -- Broader Context: Social Democracy and the 'Penal Welfare Sanction' (Garland 1985): 1910-1980 -- Immediate Context: The Neo-proprietarian 'Counter-Revolution of the Rich', The Frugality-Outsourcing-Punishment (F-O-P) Penal Policy Package and the Emergence of the Penal Crisis: 1979-2008 -- Neo-proprietarian Inequality Regimes, 'Zombie' Neo-liberalism, the A-O-P Policy Package and the Penal Crisis: 2008-2021 -- Challenges to 'Hegemonic' and the Emergence of 'Zombie', Neo-liberalism -- 'Zombie' Neo-liberalism, the Emergence of the A-O-P Penal Policy Package and the Penal Crisis. 327 $aThe Re-birth, Hybridisation or Death of Neo-proprietarian Inequality Regimes and Their Justifying Ideologies and the Implications for Penal Policy and the Penal Crisis -- Scenario 1: Neo-proprietarian and Neo-liberal Re-birth -- Scenario 2: Neo-proprietarian Inequality Linked to Neo-liberal Populism -- Scenario 3: Populist Authoritarian Nationalism -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: What Is to Be Done? -- Introduction -- The Harms of the Current Neo-proprietarian Inequality Regime -- Social and Political Agenda -- Penal Agenda -- Urgent Questions for the Proposed PCI and the Standing Advisory Body on the Penal System -- Courts -- Prisons -- Probation -- Conclusion -- References -- 10: Conclusion -- Introduction -- The Penal Landscape 2010-2021 -- Limitations of the Book -- Key Research Questions -- Conclusion: Do We Really Want to Be 'the Saudi Arabia of penal policy'? -- References -- Index. 606 $aCriminal law$zEngland 606 $aCriminal law 615 0$aCriminal law 615 0$aCriminal law. 676 $a345.42 700 $aSkinns$b Christopher David$01370296 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910733720203321 996 $aConservative government penal policy 2015-2021$93398446 997 $aUNINA