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Mary Corcoran's Outputs (16)

Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2021). Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom. Archiwum Medycyny Sądowej i Kryminologii, 39-61. https://doi.org/10.7420/AK2021.33

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.

Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2021). Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7888

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
Corcoran. (2021). Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The limits of regulating outsourced probation services in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7888

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
Corcoran. (2020). Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance. Theoretical Criminology, 651-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618819796

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.

Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation (2019)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2019). Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation. Probation Journal, 96 - 112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518820118

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
Corcoran. (2018). Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 112-119. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad739

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
Lillie, A., Corcoran, M., Wrigley, A., & Read, S. (2018). Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 368 - 375. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.8.368

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..

The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity (2018)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2018). The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity. Political Quarterly, 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12461

This article draws on some findings from research which investigated penal voluntary sector adaptation to the mixed market in criminal justice services. The article firstly reprises the main trends for aligning state relationships with the voluntary... Read More about The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity.

Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times (2017)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2017). Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times

Civil society is regaining critical relevance after decades of attempts to suborn non-governmental organisations and more recent governmental manoeuvres in Western democracies to control activists and social advocates (Civicus, 2016:31-32). In this a... Read More about Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times.

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.