A history of criminal justice in England and Wales

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.

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Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750

10.1017/cbo9780511560446 ◽

1990 ◽

Keyword(s):

England And Wales ◽

History Of

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G.E. MINGAY (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Volume VI, 1750-1850. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. xxii and 1215, £90.00).

Scottish Economic & Social History ◽

10.3366/sesh.1991.11.11.88 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 88-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

T.M. Devine

Keyword(s):

England And Wales ◽

Cambridge University ◽

History Of

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The Politics of Inertia

10.1093/oso/9780198803683.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas C. Guiney

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Policy Options ◽

Home Office ◽

England And Wales ◽

Early Release ◽

Short Sentence ◽

Policy Debates ◽

The Face

The chapter explores the ever more complex policy debates that surrounded the efforts to extend a system of early release to short sentence prisoners. It begins with an overview of the main candidates for reform and the strengths and weaknesses of these policy options. It explores the Home Office Review of Parole in England and Wales and considers why these recommendations were so quickly abandoned in the face of political and judicial pressure. It then goes on to examine the passage of the Criminal Justice Act 1982, a significant piece of legislation which resulted in wide-ranging reform of parole in England and Wales. The chapter concludes with a number of reflections upon the policy inertia of the early 1980s and what that reveals about the changing aims and techniques of criminal justice at this time.

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