Servant of the Crown
A Civil Servant's Story of Criminal Justice and Public Service Reform
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2014
208 pages
978-1-908162-76-2 (ISBN)
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Charting high profile events and everyday activities, Servant of the Crown covers government's approaches towards political, strategic and operational situations, looking also at traditions of public service and freedom under the law.
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David Faulkner
Servant of the Crown
A Civil Servant's Story of Criminal Justice and Public Service Reform
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright and publication details
- Contents
- Reviews
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Foreword by Sir John Chilcot
- Introduction
- Crime and Responses to Crime
- What this Book is About
- Confidence and Optimism
- The Home Office as I Found It
- Departmental Culture and Values
- Ministers, Structure and Organization
- Issues at the Time
- Prisons and Politics?-?the 1960s
- Relationships and Impressions
- Prison and Borstal After-Care
- The Probation and After-Care Service
- After-Care and Rehabilitation
- Four Jobs in Four Years 1966-1970
- A Period of Liberal Reform?
- Borstals, Detention Centres and Women's Prisons
- What Had to be Done
- Borstals and Young Offenders
- Pressures and Criticisms
- Modernisation and Normalisation
- The Wider Context
- Women and Girls
- Rebuilding Holloway Prison
- Prisons in Crisis
- Prisons and the May Report
- An Independent Inspectorate of Prisons
- Director of Operational Policy 1980-1982
- The Service's Identity and Purpose
- The 'Justice Model'
- New Approaches to Crime and Justice
- The Context
- The Job I Had to Do
- The Policy-making Process
- Research and Statistics
- Relations with the Judiciary
- Beyond Whitehall
- Beyond England and Wales
- Informal Discussion Group
- Managing the System
- The Criminal Justice System
- Sentencing and the Treatment of Offenders
- Parole
- Murder and Life Imprisonment
- Crown Prosecution Service
- New Technology
- Probation and the Probation Service
- Tension and Conflict
- The Policy Evolves
- Leadership and Innovation
- Hopes and Prospects
- Later Developments: Structure and Contracting-out
- Wider Responses to Crime
- Preventing and Reducing Crime
- Race and Ethnicity
- Victims of Crime
- Children
- Drugs
- Miscarriages of Justice
- Towards the Criminal Justice Act 1991
- A Programme for a New Parliament
- The Options Available
- Moving Towards Legislation
- Consultation and Discussion, Criminal Justice Conferences
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991
- The Sentencing Provisions in Retrospect
- Strangeways and the Woolf Report
- A Centre for Criminal Justice?
- The Home Office as an Organization
- Staff Reporting and Performance-Related Pay
- Career Planning and Departmental Identity
- Women and Minorities
- Personal Responsibility and the Emerging Culture of Blame
- Prison Service Agency
- Contracting-out and the Private Sector?-?Prisons
- The Home Office as I Left It
- Principles, Values and Culture
- Ministers and Officials
- Procedural Justice
- Human Rights
- Public Services and the State
- Later Years: Social and Political Change, and Some Conclusions
- Transition to Oxford
- St John's Seminars
- Publications and Lectures
- Voluntary Organizations
- The Situation Today
- Some Conclusions
- Final Thoughts
- Appendix 1: Transforming the Home Office?-?I
- Appendix 2: Transforming the Home Office?-?II
- Index
