Reshaping Probation And Prisons: The New Offender Management Framework

by Mike Hough (Editor), Rob Allen (Editor), Una Padel (Editor)

Overview

The Government has embarked on a programme of radical reform for the probation and prison services with the setting up of a National Offender Management Service (NOMS). This groundbreaking volume takes a critical look at the different aspects of the NOMS proposals, at a time when the Government is still working out the detail of its reforms. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861348128
Publisher:	Policy Press at the Univ of Bristol
Publication date:	01/18/2006
Series:	Researching Criminal Justice Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mike Hough, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, School of Law, King'''s College London, Rob Allen, International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London and Una Padel, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, King's College London

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction
      Mike Hough
2. NOMS and its relationship to crime reduction, public confidence and the new sentencing context
      John W. Raine
3. End-to-end or end in tears? Prospects for the effectiveness of the National Offender Management Model
      Peter Raynor and Mike Maguire
4. Keeping a lid on the prison population—will it work?
      Carol Hedderman
5. NOMS, contestability and the process of technocorrectional innovation
      Mike Nellis
6. Lessons from prison privatisation for probation
      Alison Liebling
7. A modern service, fit for purpose?
      David Faulkner
8. Endnote
      Rob Allen and Mike Hough

Editorial Reviews

The Authors provide an intelligent discussion of a move towards a national offender management system in Great Britain....a necessary resource for anyone interested in national offender management systems ...a valuable addition to the library..... International Criminal Justice Review

For students and academics who really want to understand the issues, ideology and implications underpinning NOMS, this book is a carefully constructed contribution from those best placed to comment: heavyweight academics and practitioners with years of correctional experience. Prison Service Journal

... this book deserves to be read by anyone interested in the interactions of politics, public sector management theory and the penal system; there are glimmers of hope, but in the main it shows why NOMS has been nicknamed, after the London base of the Home Office, as 'Nightmare on Marhsma Street.' Martin Wright

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