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Governance, performance, and capacity stress : the chronic case of prison crowding / Simon Bastow.
- Title
- Governance, performance, and capacity stress : the chronic case of prison crowding / Simon Bastow.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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- Bastow, Simon, 1972-
- Description
- xiii, 278 pages ; ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Governance systems, much like humans, can sustain capacity stress over long periods of time. Whereas public policy or public management informed analysis often tends to focus on the extremes of success or failure, the more complex reality is that these systems usually neither completely excel nor completely fail in what they do, but combine both in the way they cope and perform. This book explores one archetypal case - overcrowding in the England and Wales prison system. Packed with data, it provides an original analysis of the system through an era of managerialist change. This book contributes to cutting-edge debates in the management of prisons in particular, but the wider field of public management and executive politics more generally. It introduces the new and original concept of "chronic capacity stress" (CCS), one which will be valuable to anyone - academics, practitioners, students alike - interested in how policy systems succeed and fail in complex and ever-changing political, economic, and social environments"--.
- Series Statement
- Executive politics and governance
- Uniform Title
- Executive politics and governance.
- Subject
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
- Prisons > Overcrowding > Great Britain
- Crowding stress > Great Britain
- Prison psychology > Great Britain
- Crime & criminology
- Crime
- Political control & freedoms
- Political parties
- Prisons > Overcrowding
- Public administration
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Traditional Explanations of Capacity Stress and Their Limitations -- 2. A More Holistic Governance-style Approach -- 3. Performance, Capacity, and Managerialism as a Basis for Legitimacy -- 4. Measuring and Setting Capacity Standards -- 5. Senior Ministers, and the Limits of Their Influence to Resolve the Capacity Problem -- 6. Top Officials, and the Interface between Political and Operational -- 7. Governors, Staff, and Strategies of Local Adaptation -- 8. Privately Contracted Prisons -- New Setting, Same Condition -- 9. Chronic Capacity Stress -- a Complex Condition -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9781137289155 (hardback)
- 1137289155 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2013020919
- OCLC
- 827256598
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library