The Working Lives Of Prison Managers

Author : Jamie Bennett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137498953

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This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England. It explores how globalised changes, in particular managerialism, have intersected with local occupational cultures, positioning managers as micro-agents in the relationship between the global and local that characterises late modernity. The Working Lives of Prison Managers addresses key aspects of prison management, including how individuals become prison managers, their engagement with elements of traditional occupational culture, and the impact of the 'age of austerity'. It offers a particular focus on performance monitoring mechanisms such as indicators, audits and inspections, and how these intersect with local culture and individual identity. The book also examines important aspects of individual agency, including values, discretion, resistance and the use of power. It also reveals the 'hidden injuries' of contemporary prison managerialism, especially the distinctive effects experienced by women and members of minority ethnic groups.

Author : Jamie Bennett,Victoria Knight
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030609498

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Prisoners on Prison Films by Jamie Bennett,Victoria Knight Pdf

This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this affects people in prison. The book explains the ways in which film acts as a power resource, presenting an ideological vision of criminal justice. The audience used these films to map the social terrain of prison, including issues of power and resistance; race and racism; corruption and the illicit economy; and staff-prisoner relationships, themes which are explored in the films screened. The authors argue that media consumption is one of the ways in which people in prison construct and maintain an ideal of the prisoner culture and what it is to be a ‘prisoner’. The book also reveals the ways in which audience members’ media choices and readings are part of the ongoing process of constructing their self-identity. This book illuminates the complex ways in which media consumption is an integral part of social power, cultural formation and identity construction. Recognising and engaging with audiencehood offers one potential route for supporting more progressive penal practice. This book speaks to those interested in prisons, crime, media and culture, and film studies.

Author : Deborah H. Drake,Rod Earle,J. Sloan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137403889

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The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography by Deborah H. Drake,Rod Earle,J. Sloan Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent their finished work. The Handbook offers urgent insights relevant to current trends in the growth of imprisonment worldwide. In an era of mass incarceration, human-centric ethnography provides an important counter to quantitative analysis and the audit culture on which prisons are frequently judged. The Handbook is divided into four parts. Part I ('About Prison Ethnography') assesses methodological, theoretical and pragmatic issues related to the use of ethnographic and qualitative enquiry in prisons. Part II ('Through Prison Ethnography') considers the significance of ethnographic insights in terms of wider social or political concerns. Part III ('Of Prison Ethnography') analyses different aspects of the roles ethnographers take and how they negotiate their research settings. Part IV ('For Prison Ethnography') includes contributions that convincingly extend the value of prison ethnography beyond the prison itself. Bringing together contributions by some of the world's leading scholars in criminology and prison studies, this authoritative volume maps out new directions for future research. It will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, academics and researchers who use qualitative social research methods to further their understanding of prisons.

Author : Nasrul Ismail
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781000784152

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The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020 by Nasrul Ismail Pdf

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society’s most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English prisons to examine its impact on prison health governance and healthcare delivery. It argues that austerity has been a decade-long, large-scale political experiment that has caused debt to balloon, eroded the prison health system and perpetuated a cycle of punishment resulting in sicker prisoners. In short, austerity has violated prisoners’ human rights. Drawing on interviews and data from existing longitudinal and economic analyses, the book demonstrates how austerity has resulted in high rates of recidivism, diminished what remains of the welfare state, and increased inequality and punitiveness. Despite a decade of failure, there is a marked political reluctance to dispense with austerity, and the governmental juggernaut continues to produce the same result. As the spectre of recession increases, caused in part by Brexit and COVID-19, these failures are ever more perilous. This book blends the interdisciplinary perspectives of criminology, public health, sociology, law, social policy, politics, and economics to enable greater understanding of the impact of austerity on health governance, prison healthcare, the prison workforce, and prisoners’ health and safety. It challenges current policy, practice and thinking, and is a must read for anyone who wants to reflect on how the political economic structure can affect the governance and delivery of healthcare services in marginalised settings, beyond prisons, and indeed beyond England.

Author : Stephen C. McGuinn
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739194348

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Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory by Stephen C. McGuinn Pdf

Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison environment. Stephen C. McGuinn demonstrates that effective managers prioritize prison workers in order to meet external social demands of imprisonment and internal demands of daily operation. McGuinn argues that prison administrators need to unify prison staff under a new conception of the institution. The exploration of current power structures and their opportunities for improvement provides insight for those interested in criminology, criminal justice, prison theory and reform, policy studies, and labor studies.

Author : Helen Arnold,Matthew Maycock,Rosemary Ricciardelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031410611

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Prison Officers by Helen Arnold,Matthew Maycock,Rosemary Ricciardelli Pdf

This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems. The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Jamie Bennett,Ben Crewe,Azrini Wahidin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134004348

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Understanding Prison Staff by Jamie Bennett,Ben Crewe,Azrini Wahidin Pdf

The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise. Yet our knowledge of the inner life of the prison remains limited. This book aims to redress this research gap by providing insight into various aspects of the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, will seek to draw attention to the variety, value and complexity of work within prisons. This book will provide practitioners, students and the general reader with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the contemporary issues and concerns facing prison staff.

Author : Alison Liebling,David Price,Guy Shefer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781136840210

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The Prison Officer by Alison Liebling,David Price,Guy Shefer Pdf

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It incorporates the significant increase in knowledge about the work of prison officer since the first edition was published and provides a live account of prison work and ways of understanding the role of the prison officer in the late-modern context. Few detailed narratives exist of prison work and the sort of role the prison officer occupies; this book addresses the gap. Using a range of quantitative and qualitative data and drawing on available theoretical literature it explores the role of the prison officer in an ‘appreciative’ way, taking into account the little-discussed issues of power and discretion. It provides a single accessible guide to the world and work of the prison officer, looking in detail at the present role of the prison officer in Britain and demonstrating the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to every operation carried out by officers. This book will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in the work of a prison officer; students and others looking for an introductory survey of the literature and essential reading for any established and aspiring officers.

Author : Yvonne Jewkes,Ben Crewe,Jamie Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317754541

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Handbook on Prisons by Yvonne Jewkes,Ben Crewe,Jamie Bennett Pdf

The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first edition and reveals the range and depth of prison scholarship around the world. The Handbook contains chapters written not only by those who have established and developed prison research, but also features contributions from ex-prisoners, prison governors and ex-governors, prison inspectors and others who have worked with prisoners in a wide range of professional capacities. This second edition includes several completely new chapters on topics as diverse as prison design, technology in prisons, the high security estate, therapeutic communities, prisons and desistance, supermax and solitary confinement, plus a brand new section on international perspectives. The Handbook aims to convey the reality of imprisonment, and to reflect the main issues and debates surrounding prisons and prisoners, while also providing novel ways of thinking about familiar penal problems and enhancing our theoretical understanding of imprisonment. The Handbook on Prisons, Second edition is a key text for students taking courses in prisons, penology, criminal justice, criminology and related subjects, and is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the prison service, or in related agencies, who need up-to-date knowledge of thinking on prisons and imprisonment.

Author : Cory Contini
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783656462095

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The Effect of Prison Culture on Prison Staff by Cory Contini Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: A-, Ottawa University, course: Qualitative Research Methods, language: English, abstract: A qualitative research study looking at the effects of prison culture on prison staff and possible solutions to perceived problems. By looking at prison management theory, prison culture, and staff culture, this paper provides a comprehensive explanation of the influences within prison relations and how those influences affect prison staff at both the ‘frontline’ and the administrative levels. This is the first research study in Canada to specifically relate the effects of prison culture on prison staff and examine the correctional institution as a workplace environment. Using interviews as the data collection method, this study shows how the unstable and chaotic nature of the prison negatively influences those working within it. This paper hopes to provide concrete solutions to the problems identified. By doing so, the prison as a workplace can be improved which results in increased job performance and job satisfaction and a better institution to live and work in.

Author : M.B. Manaworker
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Prison administration
ISBN : 8178353148

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Prison Management by M.B. Manaworker Pdf

1. Origin of Prison and Objectives of Study2. Prison Administration in General 3. Reformation of the Prison System in India 4. Prison Administration in Independent India 5. Prison Management in Karnataka6. International Contemporary Scene7. The Future of Prison in India8. Case Study of Prison Management in Karnataka BibliographyIndex

Author : Andrew Coyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0954544420

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A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management by Andrew Coyle Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Corrections
ISBN : OSU:32437122354943

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Sentencing & Corrections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789289311472

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Nordic Prison Education by Anonim Pdf

In 1999, the Nordic Council adopted a recommendation on prison education in a Nordic perspective. In September 2001, a Nordic project group was appointed to carry out a study, with representatives from the Prison and Probation Services and the educational authorities. The project was directed by the County Governor of Hordaland, Norway. According to this report, good cooperation between the Prison and Probation Services and other authorities is one of the key starting points for satisfying prisoners1 educational needs. The prison education offered today does not satisfactorily correspond to prisoners1 educational needs. It also only accounts for a small fraction of the cost of a place in prison. Increased investments in prison education would probably be of added value for society as a whole. The study also points out the importance of crime prevention both to prisons and to society in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026545554

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Prison Characters Drawn from Life. With Suggestions for Prison Government. By a Prison Matron, Etc by Anonim Pdf