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Policy transfer and criminal justice: exploring US influence over British crime control policy

Jones, Trevor David Butler ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-2024 and Newburn, Tim 2007. Policy transfer and criminal justice: exploring US influence over British crime control policy. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

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Abstract

Since the late 1980s, it seems that policy-makers and politicians in the UK have increasingly looked West across the Atlantic for inspiration in the field of crime control. More broadly, recent years have seen a growing focus upon the extent to which, and ways in which, policy ideas and practices travel within and across national boundaries. Scholars from a number of disciplines have become increasingly interested in the concepts of `policy transfer' and related ideas. This book contains the first major empirical study of policy transfer in the field of criminal justice and crime control. It focuses upon policy transfer from the USA to the UK, and undertakes a detailed examination of the processes of policy change in three key areas that have been widely perceived as imports from the USA: the privatization of corrections, `two' and `three strikes' sentencing, and `zero tolerance' policing. Drawing upon a wealth of documentary evidence and interviews with leading politicians, policy makers and other key players in policy developments, the authors explore the complex processes involved in policy transfer and analyse the nature and degree of US influence in these areas.

Item Type: Book
Book Type: Authored Book
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher: Open University Press
ISBN: 9780335216680
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Last Modified: 17 Oct 2022 09:25
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3129

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