The collection of essays evaluates the criminal justice record of the Conservative-led coalition since it was formed after the May 2010 election.
It examines its overall promises and performance, and focuses on some key topics of penal policy, assessing the heralded 'rehabilitation revolution', marketisation and drug control.
Authors and articles
- Introduction, by Arianna Silvestri
- May 2010-April 2011: Political promises and policy narratives, by Rebecca Roberts and Arianna Silvestri
- Criminal justice and social justice at a time of economic crisis, by Richard Garside
- Key issues in the first year, by Arianna Silvestri
- Rehabilitation Revolution in a Big Society? by John Rodger
- ‘Revolution’: Marketisation, the penal system and the voluntary sector, Dennis Gough
- The payments-by-result road to marketisation, by Dexter Whitfield
- Prison work, by Eoin McLennan-Murray
- Coalition drug policy: Tinkering around rather than Breaking the Cycle, by Eric Carlin
- Return of the Nasty Party, by Robert Reiner
