Professor Paul Senior is Director of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice at Sheffield Hallam University and Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, NEWI. Paul has been involved in professional education, consultancy and research for twenty-two years. His professional background is in the Probation Service where he worked in the youth offending field, in partnerships with the voluntary sector and in resettlement. Between 1995 and 2001 he also worked as an organizational development consultant working on many projects with the Home Office, Community Justice National Training Organization, CCETSW and other national organizations. Professor Senior is in a unique position of being both policy developer and involved in the implementation of policy. He has published widely on resettlement, probation practice and criminal justice policy making. Dr Chris Crowther-Dowey teaches Criminology at Nottingham Trent University and has considerable experience of teaching criminology and criminal justice at all levels of study. His published work examines policing and community safety. Dr. Matt Long is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. For 6 years he trained senior police officers within National Police Training at Bramshill, including a spell acting as head of the Accelerated Promotion Course. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Law and Police Science at the world renowned John Jay College of Criminal Justice, within the City University of New York. He recently completed research on behalf of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice with regard to the civil renewal agenda and introduction of PCSOs in the context of policing. He still regularly acts as a consultant to Centrex and higher police training.
How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? What lessons can be drawn to influence the future shape of criminal justice policy? "Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice" is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving links between new public management and modernization as well as proposing a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of policies on each criminal justice agency in England and Wales. A variety of political strategies and tactics are identified, which contribute to the reform process. The extent of vulnerability, capacity for resistance or potential for transformation in each individual key agency is explored, including strategies of censure, compliance and commitment.The authors go on to analyse how these processes have occurred in an international context, in particular, the relationship between drivers of global crime and their impact in the context of England and Wales.
This will challenge policy makers in all jurisdictions to consider the potential impact of new public management. The book concludes with a look ahead, anticipating developments in criminal justice sector after the departure of Tony Blair and potentially post a new Labour administration. "Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice" is invaluable reading for those concerned with the administration of criminal justice at both a policy and managerial level; from students and academics wishing to understand the way agencies are responding to this agenda through to penal reformers and commentators.