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The probation service in England and Wales: A decade of radical change or more of the same?
European Journal of Probation Pub Date : 2020-07-29 , DOI: 10.1177/2066220320947243
Matt Tidmarsh 1
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This article reviews developments in probation in England and Wales since 2010, a decade in which services were exposed to the logic of competition and profit. In 2014, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government’s Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms promised an end to a top-down, target-centric culture of state intervention by outsourcing services for low-to-medium risk offenders to 21 privately-owned Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). And yet, just four years after the reforms were implemented, the Conservative government announced that CRCs’ contracts would be terminated, with all offender management services returned to the public sector. With a focus on the private sector, the article argues that radical change to the probation service’s structure has entrenched a focus on centrally-administered performance targets and audit. In other words, contrary to the decentralising rhetoric at the core of TR, the decade has in many ways produced more of the same managerialism that the reforms were presented as a means to displace. The result has been a general decline in the quality of probation services.

中文翻译:

英格兰和威尔士的缓刑服务:十年的彻底变革还是更多的相同?

本文回顾了自 2010 年以来英格兰和威尔士缓刑的发展,这是服务业暴露于竞争和利润逻辑的十年。2014 年,保守党-自由民主党联盟政府的转型康复 (TR) 改革承诺结束自上而下、以目标为中心的国家干预文化,将中低风险罪犯的服务外包给 21 家私营社区康复机构公司 (CRC)。然而,在改革实施仅仅四年后,保守党政府宣布终止 CRC 的合同,所有罪犯管理服务都将返回公共部门。以私营部门为重点,这篇文章认为,缓刑服务结构的根本变化已经使人们更加关注中央管理的绩效目标和审计。换句话说,与 TR 核心的权力下放言论相反,这十年在许多方面产生了更多与改革被视为取代手段相同的管理主义。结果是缓刑服务的质量普遍下降。
更新日期:2020-07-29
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