For many years the proponents of New Public Management (NPM) have promised to
improve public services by making public sector organizations much more 'business‐like' …

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What
changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have …

This book outlines key aspects of the use of non-adversarial practices in the Australian
justice system with reference to similar developments in the United States, Canada, New …

For over a decade, three successive New Labour administrations have subjected the
English youth justice system to a seemingly endless sequence of reforms. At the root of such …

While 'evidence‐based'or 'rationalist'approaches to criminal policy may appeal to
technocrats, bureaucrats and a number of academics, they often fail to compete successfully …

In this article, we start from internationally developed models explaining growing
punitiveness and increasing imprisonment rates, to analyse the penal situation within …

In a compact courtroom, a prosecutor arduously reads out loud a witness statement against
the defendant standing in the dock. The defendant, who is charged with selling drugs …

Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates' courts in England
and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing. They …

Introduction he language of partnerships pervades present-day conceptions of crime
prevention, community and policing. In contrast to a reliance on rigid, hierarchical …

El presente trabajo, describe el modo en que algunas lógicas eficientistas se han
posicionado en el sistema penal español. Con este objetivo, se ha realizado una revisión …