TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-producing change
T2 - resettlement as a mutual enterprise
AU - Weaver, Beth
AU - Nicholson, Dave
PY - 2012/11/15
Y1 - 2012/11/15
N2 - Prison numbers have continued to rise across the UK over the last decade despite a corresponding reduction in crime rates, suggesting a custodial turn in sentencing practices. As a penal response, the well documented failure of prison to rehabilitate prisoners and support their civic reintegration1 is a costly concern, with each prison place costing an average of £39,573 in England and Wales2, £73,762 in Northern Ireland3 and £32,146 in Scotland4. In this context, the ongoing financial crisis has necessarily added considerableweight to arguments in favour of reconfiguring criminal justice to better facilitate reductions in the cost of re-offending, estimated in England and Wales to amount to between £7 billion and £10 billion per year5.
AB - Prison numbers have continued to rise across the UK over the last decade despite a corresponding reduction in crime rates, suggesting a custodial turn in sentencing practices. As a penal response, the well documented failure of prison to rehabilitate prisoners and support their civic reintegration1 is a costly concern, with each prison place costing an average of £39,573 in England and Wales2, £73,762 in Northern Ireland3 and £32,146 in Scotland4. In this context, the ongoing financial crisis has necessarily added considerableweight to arguments in favour of reconfiguring criminal justice to better facilitate reductions in the cost of re-offending, estimated in England and Wales to amount to between £7 billion and £10 billion per year5.
KW - desistance
KW - mutuals
KW - social cooperatives
KW - employment
KW - social capital
UR - https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/sites/crimeandjustice.org.uk/files/PSJ%20November%202012%20No.%20204.pdf
M3 - Article
SN - 0300-3558
VL - 204
SP - 9
EP - 16
JO - Prison Service Journal
JF - Prison Service Journal
ER -