The Welsh Criminal Justice System

Richard Wyn Jones, Robert Jones

Description

The Welsh criminal justice system is unique. While the country has its own devolved government and parliament, there is no Welsh equivalent of the Scottish or Northern Irish justice systems. Rather, the writ of England and Wales criminal justice institutions continues to run. Yet the extensive responsibilities of Wales’s devolved institutions ensure that they necessarily play a significant role in criminal justice. As a result, the Welsh criminal justice system operates across a ‘jagged edge’ of devolved and reserved powers and responsibilities.

This book provides the first academic account of this system. It demonstrates not only that Wales has some of the worst criminal justice outcomes in western Europe, but that even if the will existed to try to address these problems, the current constitutional underpinnings of the Welsh criminal justice system would make it nigh-on impossible. Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this is an urgent and challenging book, required reading for anyone interested in Welsh politics and society.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: A Welsh criminal justice system?
Chapter 2 Outcomes in the Welsh criminal justice system
Chapter 3 Whitehall and the Welsh criminal justice system: What power reveals
Chapter 4 The Welsh Government and criminal justice: Responsibility without power
Chapter 5 On policy making and policy taking: Two case studies
Chapter 6 Scrutiny and accountability across the jagged edge
Chapter 7 The future of the Welsh criminal justice system
Appendix
Bibliography

Sujets

• Histoire
• Great Britain
• History
• Wales
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786839442
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

THE WELSH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

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UNIVER SIT Y OF WALES PRESS 2022

THE WELSH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ON THE JAGGED EDGE

Robert Jones and Richard Wyn Jones

UNIVER SIT Y OF WALES PRESS 2022

© Robert Jones and Richard Wyn Jones, 2022

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Britis Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-78683-943-5 e-ISBN 978-1-78683-944-2

The ights of Robert Jones and Richard Wyn Jones to be identifi d as authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Er co am ddau Daid a dwy Nain Iris a Bob Jones, Trenant ac Alice a homas Lloyd Huges, Betws yn Ros

Power does not always corrupt . . . But what power always does is reveal. Robert Caro (2019: 206)

Responsibility without power is the most dangerous of all situations for a political party with progressive pretensions. Aneurin Bevan (1952: 26)

CONTENTS

List of figures, tables and maps

Acknowledgements

Capter 1 Capter 2 Capter 3

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LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES AND MAPS

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The ate of police recorded crime (excluding fraud) in England and Wales per 1,000 population, 2015 to 2019 The umber of police oîcers per 100,000 people in England and Wales, 2010 to 2020 The umber of police community suppor oîcers (PCSOs) per 100,000 people in England and Wales, 2010 to 2020 Arrest rate per 1,000 population in England and Wales, 2015/16 to 2019/20 Conviction rates in England and Wales, 2013 to 2019 (%) Immediate custodial sentences handed out at courts in Wales and the average Welsh prison population (based on home address), 2013 to 2019 Average prison population rate per 100,000 in western Europe, 1999 to 2018 Prison population rates per 100,000 in England and Wales using home address, 2013 to 2019 Rates of imprisonment and probation supervision per 10,000 people by ethnic group in Wales in 2019 The se of community sentences in Wales, 2010 to 2019

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