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Servant of the Crown takes the reader inside Whitehall to see how issues of the day were handled and policies formed as the author progressed to working alongside Home Secretaries and other senior politicians. Charting high profile events and everyday activities, it covers governments approaches towards political, strategic and operational situations, looking also at traditions of public service and freedom under the law. Centrally the book discusses the relationship between civil servants and ministers; also with judges, magistrates and criminal justice services across a 30-year time frame (from the late-1950s to the early-1990s). It includes an explanation of the authors understanding of a civil servants duty as a servant of the Crown, historically and in a world where public services have become increasingly subject to political intervention. The book is illustrated by examples of the interaction between political and professional points of view, covering situations familiar to the police, courts and correctional services. Equally it will be of interest to students of government, especially those concerned with how policy is formulated in answer to the immediacy of political events or the continuum of knowledge and experiences of civil servants (whichever administration is in power). With a Foreword by the Rt Hon Sir John Chilcot, GCB. Raises crucial questions about ... the proper roles of civil servants and politicians: Professor Rob Canton. Enriches our understanding: Professor David Downes. Anyone interested in the state and its relationship to citizens should read [this book]: Professor Graham Towl. A uniquely rewarding book: John Chilcot. David Faulkner is well-known for his acclaimed works Crime State and Citizen (2006) and Where Next for Criminal Justice? (with Ross Burnett) (2012). Before teaching and undertaking research at Oxford University he spent his working life in the Civil Service, mainly at the Home Office (dealing with certain areas now the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice) and also in the Cabinet Office. He was appointed CB in 1985.
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Servant of the Crown
A Civil Servants Story of Criminal Justice
and Public Service Reform
and Public Service Reform
David Faulkner
With a Foreword by Sir John Chilcot
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Servant of the Crown
A Civil Servants Story of Criminal Justice and Public Service Reform
ISBN 978-1-909976-02-3 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-908162-75-5 (Epub ebook)
ISBN 978-1-908162-76-2 (Adobe ebook)
Copyright 2014 This work is the copyright of David Faulkner. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by him in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned. The Foreword is the copyright of John Chilcot 2014.
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Contents
David Faulkner reflects on his long and distinguished career in the Civil Service to raise crucial questions not only about criminal justice but also about government, about state and citizen and the proper roles of civil servants and politicians. His insistence on the priority of trying to do the right thing gives a prominence to ethics that is sadly lacking in so much current criminal justice debate.
Rob Canton, Professor in Community and Criminal Justice, De Montford University
Throughout a remarkable career in public service at the Home Office, David Faulkner played an invaluable role in the making of criminal justice policy. His book enriches our understanding of its history, character and development over the past half century.
David Downes, Professor Emiritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science
This is a book about the changing relationship between senior civil servants, government and ultimately citizens. David Faulkner gives an erudite personal history of his time at the Home Office with wisdom and a sense of humanity and humility. He eloquently argues for a rethinking of the values underpinning public service beyond the managerialist malaise of the day. This volume is both timely and timeless in its relevance and will be read by scholars and students of today and in the future. Anyone interested in the state and its relationship to citizens should read it, I very warmly welcome its arrival.
Graham Towl, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Deputy Warden, Durham University
Acknowledgements
I felt some hesitation about embarking on a more personal story than I had written before, concerned that it might seem self-regarding or nostalgic, but several friends and former colleagues persuaded me that I had something useful to say and encouraged me to make the attempt.
I would particularly like to thank Andrew Ashworth, Ros Burnett, Bill Burnham, Rob Canton, David Downes, Richard Faulkner, Tim Flesher, Cedric Fullwood, Ann James, Joanna Kozubska, Lisa Miller, Michael Moriarty, Graham Towl, Michael Wheeler-Booth and Philip Whitehead, both for encouraging me to think that the enterprise was worthwhile in the first place, and then for their supportive comments on the draft chapters which they have been kind enough to read. The book would not have written without their encouragement and it would have suffered without their suggestions and corrections, but any opinions I have expressed and any mistakes I have made are my own.
I would also like to pay tribute to the many friends, colleagues and contacts with whom I have worked over what is now a period of 55 years from my arrival in the Home Office to the present. From them I learned what I knew of the techniques, skills and values of public administration and public service, both in the Home Office and in the wider fields of criminal justice and public service, and later the insights and perspectives which came from academic analysis and discussion and from work with the voluntary sector. They include the trustees of the Thames Valley Partnership, and the group of (now mostly retired) public servants who periodically meet in and around Thame in Oxfordshire. They are too numerous to be acknowledged individually, but many of their names appear in the chapters which follow. I would like this book to be a tribute to their effort and integrity, and to the inspiration which I gained from them. It has, as always, been a great pleasure to work with Bryan Gibson at Waterside Press.
David Faulkner
June 2014
About the Author
David Faulkner is well-known for his acclaimed works Crime State and Citizen (2006) and Where Next for Criminal Justice? (with Ross Burnett) (2012). Before teaching and researching at Oxford University he spent his working life in the Civil Service, including at the Home Office (dealing with certain areas now the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice) and in the Cabinet Office. He was appointed CB in 1985.
Articles by the author relevant to this book also appear at the Waterside Press website: www.WatersidePress.co.uk
Foreword
By the Rt Hon Sir John Chilcot, GCB
This is a uniquely rewarding book on several levels. It contains a narrative through several decades of the key issues and developments in the field of criminal justice and penal policy, from the standpoint of one of the most influential senior civil servants working in that field. It is also a riveting account of the personal and intellectual formation of someone who, as all who knew and worked with him, was at once profoundly and conscientiously serious, and deeply engaged with the underlying human troubles with which public policy on crime and punishment has continually to struggle.
More than that, it illustrates the tensions, unavoidable and capable of being either fruitful or destructive, and sometimes both, between political realities and aspirational policy-making. That is sometimes portrayed, simplistically, as a battle between elected and accountable politicians in office, together these days with their political advisers on the one hand and on the other the permanent civil servants. David Faulkners insightful story shows how limited such a polarised view is, with his own engagement over many years not only with politicians in (and sometimes out of) office, but also with academia, opinion formers and interest groups of many varieties, the media in its Protean variety, the third sector, and most important of all, the practitioners judges and magistrates, lawyers, prison and probation staff and many others.
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