Consumer society, commodification and offender management

McCulloch, Trish and McNeill, Fergus (2007) Consumer society, commodification and offender management. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7 (3). pp. 223-242. ISSN 1748-8958

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895807078863

Abstract

This article aims to set current developments in `offender management' services in England and Wales and in Scotland within the contexts first of a discussion of Bauman's analysis of crime and punishment in consumer society and second of wider debates about the commodification of public services. Rather than examining the formal commodification of offender management through organizational restructuring, `contestability' and marketization, the authors examine the extent to which the substantive commodification of offender management is already evidenced in the way that probation's products, consumers and processes of production have been reconfigured within the public sector. In the concluding discussion, they consider both some limitations on the extent of commodification to date and the prospects for the containment or moderation of the process in the future.

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Item type:	Article
ID code:	10709
Dates:	Date Event August 2007 Published
Keywords:	commodification, consumer society, offender management, penality, probation, Social pathology. Social and public welfare, Law
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work
Depositing user:	Strathprints Administrator
Date deposited:	16 Nov 2011 11:46
Last modified:	20 Jan 2021 17:56
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/10709

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