Penal Policy and Political Culture: Four Essays on Policy and Process (Adobe Reader) ebook download Mick Ryan

Penal Policy and Political Culture: Four Essays on Policy and Process

A refreshing critical perspective on criminal justice: Mick Ryan's analysis and disentangling of the major forces behind postwar criminal justice policy - plus a blunt, modern-day challenge to its 'Hampstead liberals'. FOUR ESSAYS ON POLICY AND PROCESS: I: Elites; II: Outsiders; III: Managers and Managerialism; IV: Populists and Publics For many years penal policy making in England and Wales was in the hands of a small, male metropolitan elite made up of Ministers, liberal lobby groups like the Howard League and the Prison Reform Trust, and senior civil servants. Even Parliament was kept at a respectful distance, and public opinion on important penal questions like capital punishment was taken to be something that had to be managed and circumvented rather than acted upon. Penal Policy and Political Culture looks at challenges to this cosy, elite policy-making world, first from below as prisoners groups such as PROP and victims groups like Women Against Rape demanded their say in the 1970s and 1980s, and then later, as the New Right deliberately mobilised public opinion around penal questions as a mechanism to support its harsh social and economic policies in the 1980s and 1990s. Mick Ryan's conclusion is that the penal populism generated by this shift may make the liberal elite feel uncomfortable, but it will not go away. And it is no good blaming it all on opportunistic politicians, though they must take some share of the blame. Rather, the author's argument is that we live in an age where political deference is in rapid retreat, and that the public voice will have an increasing role to play in determining how we respond to a whole range of sensitive social issues, including penal issues, for example, how we deal with paedophiles.

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Title of ebook: Penal Policy and Political Culture: Four Essays on Policy and Process
ISBN: 9781906534554
parent-ISBN: 9781872870939
Publisher: Waterside Press
Internet download file size: 16140 kb
Pages: 146
Published: 07-2008
Released online for download: 07-24-2008
Author of eBook: Ryan, Mick

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