RT Article
T1 Transforming Rehabilitation as ‘policy disaster’: Unbalanced policy-making and probation reform
JF Probation journal
VO 66
IS 1
SP 43
OP 59
A1 Annison, Harry 1985-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1735176494
AB This paper utilizes the notion of ‘policy disasters’ to examine the policy developments that led to the part-privatization and marketization of probation services in England and Wales - Transforming Rehabilitation. Specifically, it examines the ‘internal’ component of policy disasters, drawing on semi-structured interviews with senior policymakers and other relevant sources. The findings presented demonstrate that the policy dynamics relating to Transforming Rehabilitation specifically, and the departmental budget as an important underlying component, were both distinctly ‘unbalanced’. This is argued to be an important explanatory factor in its damagingly swift implementation and operationalization. In closing, the paper reflects on the policy studies notion of ‘policy equilibrium’ to consider whether the policy landscape relating to probation in England and Wales has reached a ‘steady state’, or whether the ongoing apparent failings of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms may result in a further round of considerable policy change.
K1 Penal policy
K1 Policy disaster
K1 Privatization
K1 Probation
K1 Penal politics
DO 10.1177/0264550518820117