Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’.

Corcoran

Abstract

This paper considers the response of activists and prison reforming NGOs to the prison disturbances in England in 1990. These prison uprisings led to an apparent flourishing of cooperation between the criminal justice authorities, state and civil society actors. However, the paper questions the role of official patronage in anointing preferred NGOs and delineating limited modes of engagement with citizen-activists. Corresponding with this apparently democratising trend were signs of a trend towards the political containment of civil society critical actors, a trend which has conspicuously hardened under the authoritarian Conservative government elected in 2019.

Citation

Corcoran. (2021, February). Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. Presented at After Strangeways webinar series, London (Virtual)

• Conference Name: After Strangeways webinar series
• Conference Location: London (Virtual)
• Start Date: Feb 22, 2021
• End Date: Feb 26, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Feb 26, 2021
• Publication Date: Mar 4, 2021
• Series Title: This paper considers the response of activists and prison reformers to the prison disturbances in England in 1990. These prison uprisings led to an apparent flourishing of cooperation between the criminal justice authorities, state and civil society actor
• Publisher URL: https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/