Volume 5 of Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management is comprised of three parts. The need for experimental learning in public management development, experimental learning formats and innovative teaching and transfer and value creation.

This article examines the main developments over the past quarter of a century concerning courts and the sentencing of offenders. It does so in terms of an analysis of shifting political and managerial perspectives in criminal justice and tracks the twin changes, on the one hand, from post-war...