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"A fascinating and well informed analysis of how Government deals with prison overcrowding, one of their most wicked and insoluble problems. A problem that combines real operational risk, substantial cost with complex politics as a result of unresolved conflicts between punishment and rehabilitation."
Phil Wheatley, Former Head of HM Prison Service and the National Offender Management Service
"Simon Bastow's book is an impressive and systematic effort to describe the development of the policies which have created the UK's prison system. This important part of our national life is insufficiently analyzed and gets too little policy and political attention. This book is an excellent effort to fill that gap and deserves to be widely read."
Charles Clarke, Former Labour Home Secretary
"Why do policy systems display grinding underperformance despite sustained reform efforts? Showing the limitations of traditional approaches, Bastow introduces a holistic approach that helps us understand what he calls 'chronic capacity stress'. Writing with ease, his analysis of the UK prison system demonstrates the analytical potential of this fresh approach"
Arjen Boin, School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Book Title: Governance, Performance, and Capacity Stress
Book Subtitle: The Chronic Case of Prison Crowding
Authors: Simon Bastow
Series Title: Executive Politics and Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289162
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28915-5Published: 28 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45007-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28916-2Published: 28 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-367X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3688
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 278
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Social Policy, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, British Politics, Human Rights, Political Science