Crisis and change in the British and Dutch prison services : understanding crisis-reform processes
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Crisis and change in the British and Dutch prison services : understanding crisis-reform processes
Ashgate, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index
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Description
What happens when incidents result in a policy sector losing its legitimacy? When a malfunctioning policy sector receives so much negative public attention that it has to fight for its survival? This study describes three such cases in detail within the British and Dutch Prison Services, examining the incidents, the negative response of the media and Members of Parliament to these incidents, and the way in which policy-makers tried to deal with the crises. This book establishes under which conditions such crises led to reform.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Crisis and reform in the public sector
- The crisis-reform thesis: how crises can lead to reform
- 2 prison systems: pre-crisis descriptions
- The Dutch prison service: Cell shortages and escapes (1992-1993)
- Riots and reform in England (1990-1991)
- The escapes from Whitemoor and Parkhurst (1994-1995)
- Recognizing patterns of reform
- Alternative paths to reform
- Appendices
- References
- Index.
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