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The first cases of COVID-19 in England and Wales saw a sudden and significant strain placed on a range of public services, with general practitioner surgeries, hospitals, schools, adult social care and others having to adapt quickly to life with the virus. While the impact of the pandemic on such services cannot be denied, the virus also posed a ‘very real threat … to our other, often unfairly overlooked, frontline service: our prisons’ (Neill, 2020). This chapter focuses on the impact of the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prison system in England and Wales, along with the lessons learned from these waves in relation to pandemic management within the system itself and to the dichotomy that exists between populist penal politics and public health.
This edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. It provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies (prison, probation, youth justice, courts, police), professionals and service users in adapting to the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic on policy, practice and lived experience.
The text integrates first-hand narrative and artistic accounts from a variety of key stakeholders experiencing the Criminal Justice System (CJS). The editors recommend a range of evidence-based policy and practice improvements, not only in terms of planning for future pandemics, but also those that will benefit the CJS and its stakeholders in the longer term.
The first chapter sets the context for the rest of the book. It briefly describes the emergence of COVID-19 before moving on to introduce the book’s core premise, that the holistic nature of criminal justice needs to be recognized when considering both the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how we respond to pandemics in the future. Chapter outlines are also provided.
This chapter summarizes the key learning from the preceding chapters of the book. It highlights what we have to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and how we should operationalize these lessons to improve pandemic preparedness in the future.
This edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. It provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies (prisons, probation services, youth justice services, courts, police), professionals and service users in adapting to the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic on policy, practice and lived experience. The text integrates first-hand narrative and artistic accounts from a variety of key stakeholders experiencing the criminal justice system. The editors recommend a range of evidence-based policy and practice improvements not only in terms of planning for future pandemics, but also those that will benefit the criminal justice system and its stakeholders in the longer term.
This edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. It provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies (prisons, probation services, youth justice services, courts, police), professionals and service users in adapting to the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic on policy, practice and lived experience. The text integrates first-hand narrative and artistic accounts from a variety of key stakeholders experiencing the criminal justice system. The editors recommend a range of evidence-based policy and practice improvements not only in terms of planning for future pandemics, but also those that will benefit the criminal justice system and its stakeholders in the longer term.
This edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. It provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies (prisons, probation services, youth justice services, courts, police), professionals and service users in adapting to the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic on policy, practice and lived experience. The text integrates first-hand narrative and artistic accounts from a variety of key stakeholders experiencing the criminal justice system. The editors recommend a range of evidence-based policy and practice improvements not only in terms of planning for future pandemics, but also those that will benefit the criminal justice system and its stakeholders in the longer term.
