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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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Publié par	Waterside Press
Date de parution	14 juillet 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908162755
Langue	English

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Servant of the Crown
A Civil Servant’s Story of Criminal Justice and Public Service Reform
David Faulkner
With a Foreword by Sir John Chilcot
Copyright and publication details
Servant of the Crown
A Civil Servant’s Story of Criminal Justice and Public Service Reform
ISBN 978-1-909976-02-3 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-908162-75-5 (Epub ebook)
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Copyright © 2014 This work is the copyright of David Faulkner. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by him in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned. The Foreword is the copyright of John Chilcot © 2014.
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Contents
Copyright and publication details 2
Acknowledgements 8
About the Author 9
Foreword 11
Introduction 13
Crime and Responses to Crime 13
What this Book is About 15 Confidence and Optimism 19
The Home Office as I Found It 19
Departmental Culture and Values 20
Ministers, Structure and Organization 23
Issues at the Time 26 Prisons and Politics — the 1960s 29
Relationships and Impressions 29
Prison and Borstal After-Care 31
The Probation and After-Care Service 32
After-Care and Rehabilitation 34
Four Jobs in Four Years 1966-1970 35
A Period of Liberal Reform? 37 Borstals, Detention Centres and Women’s Prisons 41
What Had to be Done 41
Borstals and Young Offenders 42
Pressures and Criticisms 44
Modernisation and Normalisation 45
The Wider Context 46
Women and Girls 48
Rebuilding Holloway Prison 49 Prisons in Crisis 55
Prisons and the May Report 55
An Independent Inspectorate of Prisons 58
Director of Operational Policy 1980-1982 60
The Service’s Identity and Purpose 62
The ‘Justice Model’ 64 New Approaches to Crime and Justice 67
The Context 67
The Job I Had to Do 68
The Policy-making Process 70
Research and Statistics 74
Relations with the Judiciary 78
Beyond Whitehall 79
Beyond England and Wales 81
Informal Discussion Group 82 Managing the System 85
The Criminal Justice System 85
Sentencing and the Treatment of Offenders 88
Parole 90
Murder and Life Imprisonment 92
Crown Prosecution Service 95
New Technology 96 Probation and the Probation Service 99
Tension and Conflict 99
The Policy Evolves 101
Leadership and Innovation 103
Hopes and Prospects 105
Later Developments: Structure and Contracting-out 106 Wider Responses to Crime 109
Preventing and Reducing Crime 109
Race and Ethnicity 112
Victims of Crime 115
Children 118
Drugs 120
Miscarriages of Justice 121 Towards the Criminal Justice Act 1991 123
A Programme for a New Parliament 123
The Options Available 124
Moving Towards Legislation 127
Consultation and Discussion, Criminal Justice Conferences 131
The Criminal Justice Act 1991 132
The Sentencing Provisions in Retrospect 136
Strangeways and the Woolf Report 139
A Centre for Criminal Justice? 140 The Home Office as an Organization 143
Staff Reporting and Performance-Related Pay 144
Career Planning and Departmental Identity 145
Women and Minorities 146
Personal Responsibility and the Emerging Culture of Blame 147
Prison Service Agency 148
Contracting-out and the Private Sector — Prisons 150
The Home Office as I Left It 152 Principles, Values and Culture 157
Ministers and Officials 157
Procedural Justice 161
Human Rights 163
Public Services and the State 167 Later Years: Social and Political Change, and Some Conclusions 171
Transition to Oxford 171
St John’s Seminars 172
Publications and Lectures 173
Voluntary Organizations 174
The Situation Today 176
Some Conclusions 179
Final Thoughts 184 Transforming the Home Office — I 186 Transforming the Home Office — II 192
Index 199
David Faulkner reflects on his long and distinguished career in the Civil Service to raise crucial questions not only about criminal justice but also about government, about state and citizen and the proper roles of civil servants and politicians. His insistence on the priority of trying to do the right thing gives a prominence to ethics that is sadly lacking in so much current criminal justice debate.
Rob Canton, Professor in Community and Criminal Justice, De Montford University
Throughout a remarkable career in public service at the Home Office, David Faulkner played an invaluable role in the making of criminal justice policy. His book enriches our understanding of its history, character and development over the past half century.
David Downes, Professor Emiritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science
This is a book about the changing relationship between senior civil servants, government and ultimately citizens. David Faulkner gives an erudite personal history of his time at the Home Office with wisdom and a sense of humanity and humility. He eloquently argues for a rethinking of the values underpinning public service beyond the managerialist malaise of the day. This volume is both timely and timeless in its relevance and will be read by scholars and students of today and in the future. Anyone interested in the state and its relationship to citizens should read it, I very warmly welcome its arrival.
Graham Towl, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Deputy Warden, Durham University
Acknowledgements
I felt some hesitation about embarking on a more personal story than I had written before, concerned that it might seem self-regarding or nostalgic, but several friends and former colleagues persuaded me that I had something useful to say and encouraged me to make the attempt.
I would particularly like to thank Andrew Ashworth, Ros Burnett, Bill Burnham, Rob Canton, David Downes, Richard Faulkner, Tim Flesher, Cedric Fullwood, Ann James, Joanna Kozubska, Lisa Miller, Michael Moriarty, Graham Towl, Michael Wheeler-Booth and Philip Whitehead, both for encouraging me to think that the enterprise was worthwhile in the first place, and then for their supportive comments on the draft chapters which they have been kind enough to read. The book would not have written without their encouragement and it would have suffered without their suggestions and corrections, but any opinions I have expressed and any mistakes I have made are my own.
I would also like to pay tribute to the many friends, colleagues and contacts with whom I have worked over what is now a period of 55 years from my arrival in the Home Office to the present. From them I learned what I knew of the techniques, skills and values of public administration and public service, both in the Home Office and in the wider fields of criminal justice and public service, and later the insights and perspectives which came from academic analysis and discussion and from work with the voluntary sector. They include the trustees of the Thames Valley Partnership, and the group of (now mostly retired) public servants who periodically meet in and around Thame in Oxfordshire. They are too numerous to be acknowledged individually, but many of their names appear in the chapters which follow. I would like this book to be a tribute to their effort and integrity, and to the inspiration which I gained from them. It has, as always, been a great pleasure to work with Bryan Gibson at Waterside Press.
David Faulkner
June 2014
About the Author
David Faulkner is well-known for his acclaimed works Crime State and Citizen (2006) and Where Next for Criminal Justice? (with Ross Burnett) (2012). Before teaching and researching at Oxford University he spent his working life in the Civil Service, including at the Home Office (dealing with certain areas now the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice) and in the Cabinet Office. He was appointed CB in 1985.
Articles by the author relevant to this book also appear at the Waterside Press website: www.WatersidePress.co.uk
Foreword
By the Rt Hon Sir John Chilcot, GCB
This is a uniquely rewarding book on several levels. It contains a narrative through several decades of the key issues and developments in the field of criminal justice and penal policy, from the standpoint of one of the most influential senior civil servants working in that field. It is also a riveting account of the personal and intellectual formation of someone who, as all who knew and worked with him, was at once profoundly and conscientiously serious, and deeply engaged with the underlying human troubles with which public policy on crime and punishment has continually to struggle.
More than that, it illustrates the tensions, unavoidable and capable of being either fruitful or destructive, and sometimes both, between political realities and aspirational policy-making. That is sometimes portrayed, simplistically, as a battle between elected and accountable politicians in office, together these days with their