King, Roy D.,

The honest politician's guide to prisons and probation / Roy D. King and Lucy Willmott. - 1 online resource

"Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the prison and probation services since 1991. Setting out the nature and extent of the crisis, King and Willmott show how the Woolf agenda was overridden in a process of political churn, through explorations of the Conservative Government until 1997, New Labour, and the Coalition and Conservative Governments since 2010"--

9781003201748 1003201741 9781000476989 1000476987 9781000476910 100047691X

10.4324/9781003201748 doi


Prisons--History--20th century.
Probation--History--20th century.
Prisons--History--21st century.
Probation--History--21st century.
Prisoners.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology

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