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Crime and Justice in the ‘Big Society’

It remains to be seen whether the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and senior ministers in the coalition government continue to deploy ‘Big Society’ talk. Of all the phrases coined for the 2010 Conservative Manifesto, and from time to time resurrected since, no other has been the source of as much passionate advocacy, derision, confusion and critically righteous anger. Even the Conservative press has run cartoons mocking the Big Society.1 But whether or not the phrase survives as a party political slogan, the governmental impetus behind it is unlikely to go away – nor the analysis of what was attempted and whether anything changed. In what follows I consider what the government says the Big Society signifies, what its crime and justice elements are or might be and whether these developments are feasible and defensible.