The market doesn’t care
(2023)
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Working better together for offender reintegration: the Third Sector Perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
The pandemic presented a uniquely unrestricted bonanza in many countries for opportunistic profitmaking at the public expense. In the United Kingdom, this took the form of collusion between senior political figures and business associates in purchasi... Read More about Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom.
Market society utopianism in penal politics (2021)
Book Chapter
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
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..
La crise de l’accès à la justice en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles : état du tiers secteur dans le domaine du conseil juridique (2021)
Journal Article
Ce chapitre est consacré à l’état de l’accès des citoyens à des services juridiques et de conseil financés par l’État qui font partie intégrante de leurs droits en tant que personnes devant la loi, selon le paradigme matérialiste de la loi. Il évoque... Read More about La crise de l’accès à la justice en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles : état du tiers secteur dans le domaine du conseil juridique.
Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. (2021)
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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’..
Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR... Read More about Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales.
Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR... Read More about Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales.
Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance (2020)
Journal Article
The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the establ... Read More about Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance.
The access to justice crisis in England and Wales: the state of the legal and advisory third sector. (2020)
Journal Article
This paper reviews the ‘access to justice’ debate in England & Wales, with respect to the role which the third (also called ‘voluntary’ or ‘charitable’) sector plays in giving legal and welfare advice. It focuses specifically on the sub-sector of t... Read More about The access to justice crisis in England and Wales: the state of the legal and advisory third sector..
Conclusion: what has been learned? (2020)
Book Chapter
Introduction: marketisation and privatisation in criminal justice - an overview (2020)
Book Chapter
Building statutory, private sector and civil society partnerships: insights from research (2019)
Presentation / Conference
'Penal drift' and the voluntary sector (2019)
Journal Article
This paper explores the concept of ‘penal drift’ - the gradual adoption of criminal justice culture, language and working practices - in voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) commissioned to deliver services to offenders. It identifies increases in c... Read More about 'Penal drift' and the voluntary sector.
Five years of Transforming Rehabilitation: Markets, management and values (2019)
Journal Article
Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation (2019)
Journal Article
This article explores the experience of voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) in the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) experiment. It identifies the motivations, expectations, rationalities and experiences of voluntary sector participants, drawing on... Read More about Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation.
Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision. (2018)
Journal Article
Background: There is very little research into the way that offender management strategies impinge on the practices and decision-making of palliative care personnel in community settings. Aims: To improve understanding of the challenges that com... Read More about Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision..
Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision. (2018)
Journal Article
BACKGROUND: There is very little research into the way that offender management strategies impinge on the practices and decision-making of palliative care personnel in community settings. AIMS: To improve understanding of the challenges that communit... Read More about Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision..