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On 21 September 2007 the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice held a colloquium in Edinburgh on the implications for penal policy of the privatisation of prisons in Scotland.  The papers below were presented by speakers at the colloquium. They provide information on prison privatisation in Scotland and consider some of the implications of taking this route. The colloquium followed the Secretary for Justice’s major policy announcement on prison privatisation. He announced that from then on all new prisons would be run by the public sector but that the new private prison in Addiewell in West Lothian would continue because of, in the words of the Secretary’s statement,  ‘the prohibitive costs of reversing the outcomes of previous procurement policies’. With the opening of Addiewell prison, Scotland’s proportion of prisoners in private prisons will reach around 20%, the highest of anywhere in the world.  

 

The colloquium concentrated on questions of accountability, transparency (in particular the availability of accurate information on costs including hidden costs), the role of the Scottish Prison Service, how far values can be embedded in contracts, contract monitoring and the system of financial penalties for non-compliance, and the effect of privatisation on the development of public policy on criminal and social justice issues.  Parallels with the NHS were considered.

 

 

Baroness Vivien Stern, Convenor SCCCJ

 

 

 

 

 

·        Privatisation Still Not Proven:

A Snapshot of International Developments

Full document Word  (48kb)

 

 

Presentation by Stephen Nathan,

 

Public Services International Research Unit

Business School, University of Greenwich

 

 

 

 

  • Policy and operational implications of prison privatisation

Full document Word (69kb)

 

 

Presentation by Prof. Andrew Coyle

International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College London

 

 

·        The Public expenditure Implications of the Private Finance Initiative:  case study of the NHS in England and Scotland

Full PowerPoint presentation http://www.scccj.org.uk/documents/prison seminar Sep 2007.ppt (181kb)

 

 

Presentation by Prof. Allyson Pollock

Centre for International Public Health, University of Edinburgh

 

 

 

·         Crime & Justice in Scotland 2005/06  

A Second Review of Progress   

  Full document PDF (519kb)  

  Cover PDF  (214kb) 

 

 

 

 

This review of crime and justice in Scotland is the second to be produced by the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice and builds on the first which was published in December 2005.

 

 

·         The Cost of Unnecessary Imprisonment    

A Briefing Paper   

  Full document PDF(761kb) 

  Cover  PDF (197kb)

 

 

 

This briefing paper looks at a major problem facing Scotland in terms of the number of people being sent to prison.

 

 

·         Giving Up Crime    

Directions for Policy   

  Full document PDF (430kb) 

  Cover PDF  (1.15MB)

 

 

This briefing paper explores the implications for criminal justice policy in Scotland of desistance research – that is, research about the endings of criminal careers.

 

 

·         Prison Privatisation in Scotland    

A Briefing Paper   

 PDF (287kb) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • The End of Justice:

 

Reflections on Inequality, Violence, and Social Control in the 21st Century

Word Document (88kb)

 

 

 

 

Lecture by Elliott Currie, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine.

 

28th and 29th March 2007, SCCCJ Lecture Series.

 

 

·         Women in Prison in Scotland: An Unmet Commitment    

A Briefing Paper   

  PDF (457kb) 

 

 

 

The first in a series of short briefing papers on criminal justice topics
of current interest.

 

 

·         Early Release from Prison       

  Word document (27kb) 

 

 

 

Comments by SCCCJ on the Report of the Sentencing Commission for Scotland, 10 May 2006.

 

·         Crime and Justice in Scotland 2004/05 

A Review of Progress       

  Full document PDF (1.33MB)

Cover PDF (189kb)

 

 

This is the first in a series of annual reviews of the progress of crime and justice in Scotland. SCCCJ hopes it will promote discussion and debate and lead to more interest generally in defining, measuring and building on success.

 

 

 

·         Reducing the Prison Population 

Penal Policy and Social Choices 

PDF (207kb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         A Unique Punishment:  

Sentencing and the Prison Population in Scotland

PDF (305kb)

 

 

A study of decision making by sentencers in Scotland by Prof Jacqueline Tombs.

 

·         Re:duce Re:habilitate Re:form 

Consultation -  

Consortium discussion paper

PDF (53kb)

 

 

This discussion paper has been produced to encourage debate on the current consultation by the Scottish Executive.

 

·         Making Sense Of Drugs And Crime

                                                                     

Word  (303kb) or PDF (182kb)

 

This report goes beyond an analysis of the 'drug problem' to indicate how a harm reducing and more principled and effective penal policy on drugs, alcohol and crime could be developed.

 

 

·         Rethinking Criminal Justice in Scotland       

  Summary PDF (70kb) or

Summary Word (92kb)

 

  Full document Word (338kb)

 

PDF(302kb)

 

 

 

This report argues for a broad integrated social policy approach to crime reduction, with an emphasis on early prevention, given the evidence that this is the best way to protect victims and communities.

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