The management of community justice services in Scotland: policy-making and the dynamics of central and local control.

Morrison, Katrina

Abstract

For observers of, and those involved with, the Probation Service in England and Wales, this is a bleak time. As the Ministry of Justice pushes through reforms which will see 70% of Probation Trusts’ work outsourced to voluntary and private bidders on a system of payment by results (PbR) and morale in the Probation Service is at an alltime low (see for example Hedderman, 2013; Phillips, 2014; Robinson, 2013; Senior, 2013), a time when probation in England and Wales was underpinned by social work values and principles seems a distant memory.

Citation

Morrison, K. (2015). The management of community justice services in Scotland: policy-making and the dynamics of central and local control. In M. Wasik, & S. Santatzoglou (Eds.), The management of change in criminal justice: who knows best? (152-169). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_9

• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 18, 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 152-169
• Book Title: The management of change in criminal justice: who knows best?
• Chapter Number: 9
• ISBN: 9781137462480
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_9
• Keywords: Community justice; Scotland; policy-making
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9681
• Publisher URL: http://www.palgraveconnect.com.ezproxy.napier.ac.uk/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137462497.0014