Preventive Justice and the Power of Policy Transfer

by Ogg, James Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781137495013
• ISBN10: 1137495014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the nature of criminal justice policy and decision making during a period of complex reform.
 
Recent shifts in criminal law and criminal justice policy have resulted in an increased use of preventive measures (orders and detention), which have led to claims of a 'preventive state' or 'preventive justice'. This book assesses how measures introduced to control minor crime and anti-social behaviour (such as the iconic 'ASBO') have incrementally spread into quite distinct areas of crime control such as organised crime and terrorism.
 
Preventive Justice and the Power of Policy Transfer demonstrates how a preventive justice system can be constructed by the ad hoc actions of policy-makers (often with good intentions) as time-poor executives and politicians demand rapid policy responses, and public scrutiny of their actions strengthens every day. As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly central to policy development.

Author Biography

James Thomas Ogg is a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a strategic adviser to an Australian Prime Minister and Cabinet for several years, specialising in criminal justice policy and national security. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford, UK, and is currently a management consultant advising on criminal justice and civil service reform.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
PART I
2. 'Serious' Shifts in Organised Crime Control
3. A State of Prevention
4. Policy Transfer and Everyday Policy-making

PART II
5. Process-tracing: Case Study and Method
6. The Proliferation of the Preventive Order Model
7. Policy Analysis: Elite Interviews and Early Policy Documents
8. The Policy of Policy Transfer