Delivering Rehabilitation by Lol Burke Steve Collett

Author:Lol Burke, Steve Collett [Lol Burke, Steve Collett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Criminology
ISBN: 9781136261558
Google: AEW2BQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05T05:02:00+00:00

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COMPETING REHABILITATION

Markets, profits and delivery

Only in a valueless world would the concept of justice itself become just another commodity to be priced and transacted.

(Neilson 2012: 422)

Going private on public goods

A significant feature of the impact of the rise of neoliberalism outlined in the previous chapters has been the transformation in the role of the state from a provider of public services to that of a facilitator of market solutions (Bell 2011). Moreover, it is not just the radical transformation of the service delivery mechanisms from public to private that impacts on the practice of criminal justice and the rehabilitative endeavour but the way in which the relationship between communities and offenders are affected. Neilson’s reference to values challenges us to question the impact of commodification in a more profound and far reaching way. We cannot and should not ignore this challenge because the rehabilitative endeavour is about more than delivering instrumental outcomes for individual offenders. It is also about society’s expression of how we should treat troubled and troublesome individuals.

The Transforming Rehabilitation proposals (Ministry of Justice 2013) can be seen as the culmination, or at least a significant tipping point, on the journey toward the commercialisation of justice and the marketisation of rehabilitative services. According to Pat Carlen:

… governments have increasingly distanced themselves from policy delivery and instead repositioned themselves as indirect consumers of penal products via agencies operating to get the best deal for them and their electorates who nowadays have been taught to think of themselves more as customers of government agencies than as participants in government.

(2005: 426)

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