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The policy of austerity has led to significant budget cuts in legal aid and court services which threaten justice. It has also led to staffing reductions and overcrowding in the prison system which threaten order and have undermined more positive work with prisoners. The outsourcing of prison and community-based offender services is based on untried method with uncertain results. The shift in orientation towards punishment is regrettable because it is essentially negative. The book notes that this move to punitive managerialism is located in the broader trend towards neo-liberalism. It concludes by attempting to articulate the parameters of an affordable and emotionally satisfying yet humane and rational penal policy.>
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Book Title: Coalition Government Penal Policy 2010–2015
Book Subtitle: Austerity, Outsourcing and Punishment
Authors: David Skinns
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45734-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45733-2Published: 29 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45734-9Published: 12 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 299
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Crime and Society, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, British Politics