All Outputs (12)

Market society utopianism in penal politics (2021)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2021). Market society utopianism in penal politics. In Privatisation and Marketisation in Criminal Justice (15 - 30). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447346173.002

This chapter examines the utopian intellectual origins of some strands of contemporary free-market ideas and practices from their post-war revival via thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, whose ideas went on to influence the New Right following the econ... Read More about Market society utopianism in penal politics.

Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales. (2021)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2021). Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales. In Privatisation and Marketisation in Criminal Justice (187 - 202). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447346173.013

This chapter draws on the findings of a major research project on voluntary sector adaptation and resilience in the face of the mixed market in penal services that has emerged during a period of austerity and deep disruption to the social economy. Ba... Read More about Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales..

Introduction: marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice - an overview (2020)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2020). Introduction: marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice - an overview. In Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv138wr8f.7

Conclusion: what has been learned? (2020)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2020). Conclusion: what has been learned?. In https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv138wr8f (325-330)

Bereavement work in the criminal justice system. (2018)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2018). Bereavement work in the criminal justice system. In Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System

This chapter considers the false demarcation that operates in practice between the administration of criminal justice and the inadequacies in the system when faced with managing the personal elements of bereavement. From a criminological vantage poin... Read More about Bereavement work in the criminal justice system..

The third sector role in managing serious offenders: partners, collaborators or buffers? (2017)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2017). The third sector role in managing serious offenders: partners, collaborators or buffers?. In Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management (209-231). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63567-5

Deconstructing the panacea: the benefits fallacy in volunteer recruitment in criminal justice (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Deconstructing the panacea: the benefits fallacy in volunteer recruitment in criminal justice. In Voluntary sector and criminal justice (93 -116)

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Introduction. In Voluntary sector and criminal justice (1-12)

Gendered dynamics of mentoring (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Gendered dynamics of mentoring. In Women and Criminal Justice: From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation (153 - 172)

Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence (2015)
Book Chapter
Worrall, A., & Corcoran, M. (2015). Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence. In The Management of Change in Criminal Justice (259-274). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_15

For more than a decade, the government in England and Wales has insisted that a very small proportion of offenders (around 10%) are committing a very large proportion of crime (around 50%) at any point in time (Home Office, 2001; 2003; 2004). Althoug... Read More about Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence.

The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales (2014)
Book Chapter
Corcoran, M. S. (2014). The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales. In Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective: Volume 19 (53-74). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1521-613620140000019002

This paper reviews the economic turn in criminology to contextualise the prominence of market rationalities in penal privatisation and outsourcing in England and Wales. It illuminates how fiscal crisis and austerity have provided opportunities for t... Read More about The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales.

A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian (2013)
Book Chapter
Corcoran, M., & Fox, C. (2013). A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian. In Women Exiting Prison; Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival. Taylor and Francis Group