Policy Transfer and Everyday Policy-Making

Abstract

We have established two key propositions thus far. First, that the SCPO is a novel measure for serious and organised crime control, in that no such civil-criminal hybrid statutory instrument has been previously used to regulate or control the behaviour of individuals engaging in serious or organised criminal behaviour. The second proposition is that this novel measure falls within a relatively new framework of civil preventive orders, which regulate or control other diverse types of criminal behaviour. This immediately presents some important research questions, such as how far did other preventive orders influence the development of the SCPO? Moreover, how does the mechanism of transfer operate in practice (who and what is involved, and when does it occur)? Some normative questions also arise about whether measures used to respond to one area of crime control can or should be adopted to respond to other quite distinct sets of criminal behaviour. What are the implications of generating policy responses through such transfer procedures?