Mixed economy of justice

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Mixed economy of justice

• Pam Cox
• University of Essex
• pamcox_at_essex.ac.uk

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Patrick Carter

• private health care business
• chair of numerous Govt reviews
• Jack Straws best man

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NOMS regions

• Regional Offender Managers
• commission services for their region
• maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• develop regional reducing re-offending
  delivery plans
• co-ordinate regional and local partnerships

http//noms.justice.gov.uk/about-us/working-with-p
artners/service-providers/NPN/search_NPN/
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Research design

• Youth justice provision in NOMS East of England
  region
• who are the providers commissioners?
• to whom are they accountable?
• how do they define measure successful
  outcomes?
• have outcomes improved?
• do they help or hinder the realisation of child
  rights?
• historical analysis

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historical analysis

• map criminal justice partnerships in eastern
  England, 1850-present
• case studies of selected institutions, networks,
  community work and organisations
• trace changing contours of mixed economy of
  justice
• re-consider moral economy

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Gender, Justice and Welfare Bad Girls in
Britain, 1900-50 (2003)
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building on Gender, Justice and Welfare

• gender (boys and voluntarism)
• networks
• accountability
• equality of access
• moral economy
• civil society and community