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Handbook on prisons /

Contributor(s): Jewkes, Yvonne, 1966-.
Publisher: Cullompton ; Portland, Ore. : Willan, 2007Description: xxx, 778 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781843921868 (hbk.); 9781843921868:; 1843921863 (hbk.); 1843921855 (pbk.); 9781843921851 (pbk.).Subject(s): Prisons -- Great Britain | Prison administration -- Great Britain | Prisoners -- Great Britain | Imprisonment -- Great BritainDDC classification: 365.941
Contents:
pt. 1. Prisons in perspective. Prison histories and competing audiences, 1776-1966 / Keith Soothill -- The changing face of the English prison : A critical review of the aims of imprisonment / David Scott -- The politics of imprisonment / Richard Sparks -- Imprisonment : Some international comparisons and the need to revisit panopticism / Roy D. King -- The sociology of imprisonment / Ben Crewe -- Researching Russian prisons : A consideration of new and established methodologies in prison research / Laura Piacentini -- The evolution of prison architecture / Yvonne Jewkes and Helen Johnston -- pt. 2. Prisoners. Children and young persons / Rod Morgan -- Imprisonment in old age / Elaine Crawley -- Women in prison / Diana Medlicott -- Black and minority ethnic prisoners / Kimmett Edgar -- Political imprisonment and the 'War on Terror' / Kieran McEvoy, and Kirsten McConnachie, and Ruth Jamieson -- pt. 3. Themes and debates. Security, control and the problems of containment / Roy D. King -- Problematizing prison privatization : An overview of the debate / James Mehigan and Abigail Rowe -- Prison healthcare / Jane Senior and Jenny Shaw -- Drugs in prison / Michael Wheatley -- Prison suicide and its prevention / Alison Liebling -- Prisons and the media : The shaping of public opinion and penal policy in a mediated society / Yvonne Jewkes -- pt. 4. Staffing, management and accountability. Prison officers and prison culture / Helen Arnold, and Alison Liebling, and Sarah Tait -- Governing, leadership and change / Andrew Coyle -- Measuring order and control in the prison service / Jamie Bennett -- Inspecting prisons / Richard Harding -- Prisoners' rights / Dirk von Zyl Smit -- pt. 5. Regimes, rehabilitation and resettlement. Dangerous offenders and dangerousness / Sophie Holmes and Keith Soothill -- Addressing offending behavior : 'What works' and beyond / Clive R. Hollin and Charlotte Bilby -- Through the prison gate : Resettlement, offender management and the 'seamless sentence' / Kirsty Hudson, and Mike Maguire, and Peter Raynor -- After prison, what? The ex-prisoner's struggle to desist from crime / Shadd Maruna -- Prisoners' families / Alice Mills and Helen Codd -- Campaigning for and campaigning against prisons : Excavating and reaffirming the case for prison abolition / Mick Ryan and Joe Sim.
Summary: Focusing on prisons, this title is a useful reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It explores a range of historical and contemporary issues relating to prisons, imprisonment and prison management.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Prisons in perspective. Prison histories and competing audiences, 1776-1966 / Keith Soothill -- The changing face of the English prison : A critical review of the aims of imprisonment / David Scott -- The politics of imprisonment / Richard Sparks -- Imprisonment : Some international comparisons and the need to revisit panopticism / Roy D. King -- The sociology of imprisonment / Ben Crewe -- Researching Russian prisons : A consideration of new and established methodologies in prison research / Laura Piacentini -- The evolution of prison architecture / Yvonne Jewkes and Helen Johnston -- pt. 2. Prisoners. Children and young persons / Rod Morgan -- Imprisonment in old age / Elaine Crawley -- Women in prison / Diana Medlicott -- Black and minority ethnic prisoners / Kimmett Edgar -- Political imprisonment and the 'War on Terror' / Kieran McEvoy, and Kirsten McConnachie, and Ruth Jamieson -- pt. 3. Themes and debates. Security, control and the problems of containment / Roy D. King -- Problematizing prison privatization : An overview of the debate / James Mehigan and Abigail Rowe -- Prison healthcare / Jane Senior and Jenny Shaw -- Drugs in prison / Michael Wheatley -- Prison suicide and its prevention / Alison Liebling -- Prisons and the media : The shaping of public opinion and penal policy in a mediated society / Yvonne Jewkes -- pt. 4. Staffing, management and accountability. Prison officers and prison culture / Helen Arnold, and Alison Liebling, and Sarah Tait -- Governing, leadership and change / Andrew Coyle -- Measuring order and control in the prison service / Jamie Bennett -- Inspecting prisons / Richard Harding -- Prisoners' rights / Dirk von Zyl Smit -- pt. 5. Regimes, rehabilitation and resettlement. Dangerous offenders and dangerousness / Sophie Holmes and Keith Soothill -- Addressing offending behavior : 'What works' and beyond / Clive R. Hollin and Charlotte Bilby -- Through the prison gate : Resettlement, offender management and the 'seamless sentence' / Kirsty Hudson, and Mike Maguire, and Peter Raynor -- After prison, what? The ex-prisoner's struggle to desist from crime / Shadd Maruna -- Prisoners' families / Alice Mills and Helen Codd -- Campaigning for and campaigning against prisons : Excavating and reaffirming the case for prison abolition / Mick Ryan and Joe Sim.

Focusing on prisons, this title is a useful reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It explores a range of historical and contemporary issues relating to prisons, imprisonment and prison management.

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