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Mark worked in a McDonald’s once but has no job now. He is not very close to any family and has no specific plans for his future. He is only 19, though, and who knows how he might develop. Katrina is 29, a decade older than Mark. She has two children; her four-year old has major sight and hearing impairments as well as a lung problem, and she has spent more time in hospitals than she cares to recall. Her parents are getting older, and one of them recently had a stroke, which is a source of deep stress for her. She is very close to her family and anxious to be with them.
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Scotland has a separate criminal legal and justice system, including a separate prisons service and structure.
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http://www.gov.scot/About/Review/spc/About [accessed 16 December 2015].
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This latter assumption was often stated and referred to unproblematically in various policy reform conversations throughout the period of the penal policy ethnography, as noted down several times in field notes.
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Armstrong, S., Lam, A. (2017). Policy as a Crime Scene. In: Armstrong, S., Blaustein, J., Henry, A. (eds) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54642-5_5
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