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Title: Drivers of political and market realism among the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales'


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Drivers of political and market realism among
the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales.
  • Mary Corcoran, Centre for Criminological
    research, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5
    5BG, England.

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Hegemonic consensus around crime management
partnerships between governments and
community/voluntary sector
  • Penal and voluntary sector reforms from the 1990s
  • The rise of penal markets first and second wave
    penal privatization
  • Devolving the governance of crime
  • A focus on improving outcomes for communities
    and what works loosens any ideological focus on
    any one sector as the preferred provider of
    public service, demanding more flexibility in
    the organisations and structures that are
    deployed to achieve better results (Home Office
    (HOACU), March 2005 16).

3
International trends
  • Hollowing out of welfare state in favour of
    disorganised welfare mixes
  • Blurring of state/civil spheres
  • Extending regulation/managerial regimes into
    civil society
  • Market logics cementing social contract
  • VSOs pioneers of penal reform and of
    contestability
  • Compacts UK model taken up in many countries
  • Professionalise or perish
  • What works approaches

4
Background
  • Mainstreaming the voluntary sector as a
    partner in governance.
  • Reinventing the voluntary sector as a governable
    terrain
  • Britain, as a changing society, faces serious
    challenges - from terrorism and security to
    environmental change and the huge global
    restructuring of our economy - and in that sense
    the British way of life is under pressure. But
    whether in peace or in war, Britain, as a
    society, is endlessly resilient, adaptive and
    never broken. And we know that we do best when we
    mobilise all the strengths of Britain - and most
    of all the strengths of our people. (Transcript
    of speech given by the Right Hon. Gordon Brown,
    Prime Minister at the launch of his book,
    Everyday Heroes, July 24 2007).

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Managerial audit controls
  • Contractual governance The promotion of
    partnership with the third sector in public
    services enables VCOs to be discursively
    constituted as a natural participant in
    government policy as generic service delivery
    organizations (Cabinet Office 2007 5). As
    such the third sector is also discursively
    constituted as part of a public domain,
    delivering public services, for the public good
    (because it is value driven, but only in so far
    as these values are shared with government)
    rendering its governance discursive practicable
    indeed necessary Carmel Harlock, 2008 161).
  • Improving Regulating Performance

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Structural and ideological drivers
  • Drift to state dependency the further
    fragmentation in a divided shadow state (Wolch,
    1990)
  • Adapting through entrepreneurialism and
    professionalisation
  • Voluntary activity is not antithetical to market
    forces but can become an alternative, or a
    complement, to an economy organised around money
    (ACEVO 2004 8).

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Some observations
  • Hegemonic consensus in relation to crime policy
    centring around the reification of community
    justice (Crawford 1999) and protection from the
    property-less and demonised other (Hope
    Sparks, 2000).
  • The introduction of new governmental, regulatory
    and disciplinary drivers which elicit adapt or
    perish realisms.
  • Marketisation and the proliferation of new
    market-oriented philanthropic forms
  • Academic realisms in an era of neo- or late
    privatisation Of course, the argument that only
    the state can be involved at the deep end of the
    system where force is routinely involved applies
    as much to charities or non-profit making bodies
    as it does to corporate or profit making bodies.
    In other words, the Prison Reform Trust should no
    more run prisons than Group 4 (Ryan 1994 12).

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