Prisons and their moral performance : a study of values, quality, and prison life /
By: Liebling, Alison
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Contributor(s): Arnold, Helen.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xxvii, 549 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0199291489; 9780199291489:; 9780199291489.Subject(s): Prisons -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain | Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain | Prisoners -- Care -- Great Britain | Prisons -- Great Britain -- Evaluation | Prison administration -- Great Britain | Prisoners -- Care -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great BritainDDC classification: 174.9365 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-534), appendix, and index.
Penal values and prison evaluation -- The late modern prison and the question of values -- The measurement and evaluation of prison regimes -- Identifying what matters in prison -- Particular prisons and their qualities -- Key dimensions of prison life -- Relationships dimensions -- Regime dimensions -- Social structure and meaning -- Penal values and prison management -- Managing late modern prisons and their performance -- Security, harmony, and "what matters" in prison life -- Legitimacy, decency, and the moral performance of prisons.
A critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing an effective way of evaluating the difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of British prisons.