All Outputs (32)

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

The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice (2016)
Book
Corcoran, M. (2016). The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and... Read More about The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice.

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.

La evolución de los mercados penales en tiempos de austeridad: el caso de Inglaterra y Gales (2015)
Journal Article
Corcoran, M. (2015). La evolución de los mercados penales en tiempos de austeridad: el caso de Inglaterra y Gales. Crítica Penal y Poder, 8,

Objetivo: El artículo revisa el actual giro económico de la criminología para contextualizar la importancia de las racionalidades de mercado en la privatización y la externalización penal en Inglaterra y Gales, ilustrando cómo la crisis fiscal y la a... Read More about La evolución de los mercados penales en tiempos de austeridad: el caso de Inglaterra y Gales.

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.

Integrated Offender Management Research Project: Commissioned by Staffordshire Police and Partners. (2014)
Book
Corcoran. (2014). Integrated Offender Management Research Project: Commissioned by Staffordshire Police and Partners

How the public sphere was privatised and why civil society could reclaim it (2014)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2014). How the public sphere was privatised and why civil society could reclaim it

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

Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’.
Presentation / Conference
Corcoran. Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. Presented at After Strangeways webinar series

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