Paul Rock, The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Vol II Institution Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110158
Author(s):  
Rod Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The revolving door of reform

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tangen ◽  
Ravinderjit Kaur Briah
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Management Service ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Probation Service

Reform of probation services in England and Wales has been a frequent feature of its history, though the pace of review, restructuring and modification has increased exponentially in the last 30 years. This paper provides a brief history of changes to the National Probation Service since its inception in the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 to the recent announcements of the merger of prison and probation services into a new agency, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. Commonalities are identified between the various programmes of reform instigated throughout the last 17 years, drawing on insights from Pollitt. The paper addresses the implications for the future of a public probation service in England and Wales after the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) ceased to exist in April 2017 and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service was inaugurated.

scholarly journals A Brief History of Record Management at the National Archives

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rock
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Record Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The 1950S

AbstractWork on the official history of criminal justice prompted Paul Rock's interest in why it was that so many government papers, amounting to some 98% of the files produced, have been destroyed over the years. Successive crises in the accumulation of records, accompanied by only a limited increase in the shelving capacity of the Public Record Office - later The National Archives - led in the 1950s and beyond to a firm emphasis being placed on the destruction rather than the retention of papers. Officials and politicians were adamant that the unforeseeable demands which future historians might make on the archives had to be accorded less importance than the economic practicalities of what was called ‘weeding’.

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