Servant of the crown : a civil servant's story of criminal justice and public service reform / David Faulkner ; with a foreword by John Chilcot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, David, author.

Chilcot, John, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Civil service--Great Britain.

Civil service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hook London, England : Waterside Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Servant of the Crown takes the reader inside Whitehall to see how issues of the day were handled and policies formed as the author progressed to working alongside Home Secretaries and other senior politicians. Charting high profile events and everyday activities, it covers government's approaches towards political, strategic and operational situations, looking also at traditions of public service and freedom under the law. Centrally the book discusses the relationship between civil servants and ministers; also with judges, magistrates and criminal justice services across a 30-year time frame (from the late-1950s to the early-1990s). It includes an explanation of the author's understanding of a civil servant's duty as a servant of the Crown, historically and in a world where public services have become increasingly subject to political intervention. The book is illustrated by examples of the interaction between political and professional points of view, covering situations familiar to the police, courts and correctional services. Equally it will be of interest to students of government, especially those concerned with how policy is formulated in answer to the immediacy of political events or the continuum of knowledge and experiences of civil servants (whichever administration is in power). With a Foreword by the Rt Hon Sir John Chilcot, GCB.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright and publication details""; ""Contents""; ""Reviews""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""About the Author""; ""Foreword by Sir John Chilcot""; ""Introduction""; ""Crime and Responses to Crime""; ""What this Book is About""; ""Confidence and Optimism""; ""The Home Office as I Found It""; ""Departmental Culture and Values""; ""Ministers, Structure and Organization""; ""Issues at the Time""; ""Prisons and Politics the 1960's""; ""Relationships and Impressions""; ""Prison and Borstal After-Care""; ""The Probation and After-Care Service""; ""After-Care and Rehabilitation""

""Four Jobs in Four Years 1966-1970""""A Period of Liberal Reform?""; ""Borstals, Detention Centres and Women's Prisons""; ""What Had to be Done""; ""Borstals and Young Offenders""; ""Pressures and Criticisms""; ""Modernisation and Normalisation""; ""The Wider Context""; ""Women and Girls""; ""Rebuilding Holloway Prison""; ""Prisons in Crisis""; ""Prisons and the May Report""; ""An Independent Inspectorate of Prisons""; ""Director of Operational Policy 1980-1982""; ""The Service's Identity and Purpose""; ""The Justice Model""; ""New Approaches to Crime and Justice""; ""The Context""

""The Job I Had to Do"" ""The Policy-making Process""; ""Research and Statistics""; ""Relations with the Judiciary""; ""Beyond Whitehall""; ""Beyond England and Wales""; ""Informal Discussion Group""; ""Managing the System""; ""The Criminal Justice System""; ""Sentencing and the Treatment of Offenders""; ""Parole""; ""Murder and Life Imprisonment""; ""Crown Prosecution Service""; ""New Technology""; ""Probation and the Probation Service""; ""Tension and Conflict""; ""The Policy Evolves""; ""Leadership and Innovation""; ""Hopes and Prospects""

""Later Developments: Structure and Contracting-out"" ""Wider Responses to Crime""; ""Preventing and Reducing Crime""; ""Race and Ethnicity""; ""Victims of Crime""; ""Children""; ""Drugs""; ""Miscarriages of Justice""; ""Towards the Criminal Justice Act 1991""; ""A Programme for a New Parliament""; ""The Options Available""; ""Moving Towards Legislation""; ""Consultation and Discussion, Criminal Justice Conferences""; ""The Criminal Justice Act 1991""; ""The Sentencing Provisions in Retrospect""; ""Strangeways and the Woolf Report""; ""A Centre for Criminal Justice?""

""The Home Office as an Organization"" ""Staff Reporting and Performance-Related Pay""; ""Career Planning and Departmental Identity""; ""Women and Minorities""; ""Personal Responsibility and the Emerging Culture of Blame""; ""Prison Service Agency""; ""Contracting-out and the Private Sector Prisons""; ""The Home Office as I Left It""; ""Principles, Values and Culture""; ""Ministers and Officials""; ""Procedural Justice""; ""Human Rights""; ""Public Services and the State""; ""Later Years: Social and Political Change, and Some Conclusions""; ""Transition to Oxford""

""St John's Seminars""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 23, 2014).

ISBN:

9781908162762

1908162767

9781908162755

1908162759