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Judges and other practitioners in the criminal justice system frequently bemoan the amount of change in the criminal justice system (Daily Telegraph, 2009). While complaints about torrents of legislation creating thousands of new offences and myriad new sentencing powers are sometimes overblown, it is certainly true that criminal policy can seem to be in a state of perpetual revolution, increasingly under the sway of political and media pressures to address perceived shortcomings of one sort or another. As a result of legislative hyperactivity the number of people in prison in England and Wales has doubled since the early 1990s, partly because offenders are more likely to receive a prison sentence and partly because they will spend a longer part of that sentence locked up (British Academy, 2014).
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Allen, R. (2015). Continuity and Change in Prisons. In: Wasik, M., Santatzoglou, S. (eds) The Management of Change in Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_6
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