This is the most comprehensive and ambitious book on prisons to have been published, a key text for anybody studying the subject and an essential work of reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It is especially timely in view of the many changes and debates about the role of prisons and their future organisation and management as part of the National Offender Management Service
A key aim of the book is to explore a wide range of historical and contemporary issues relating to prisons, imprisonment and prison management, and to chart likely future trends. Chapters in the book are written by leading scholars in the field, and reflect the range and depth of prison research and scholarship.
Like the Handbook of Policing and Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety the Handbook on Prisons will be the essential book on the subject.
Contents
Introduction: understanding the prison
1 Imprisonment in the 21st Century: A View from the Inspectorate, Anne Owers CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales
Part 1: Prisons in Perspective
Introduction Yvonne Jewkes
2 Prison Histories and Competing Audiences: 1776–1966, Keith Soothill
3 The Changing Face of the English Prison: A Critical Review of the Aims of Imprisonment, David Scott
4 The Politics of Imprisonment, Richard Sparks
5 Imprisonment: Some International Comparisons and the Need to Revisit Panopticism Roy D. King
6 The Sociology of Imprisonment, Ben Crewe
7 Researching Russian Prisons: A Consideration of New and Established Methodologies in Prison Research, Laura Piacentini
8 The Evolution of Prison Architecture, Yvonne Jewkes and Helen Johnston
Part 2: Prisoners
Introduction Yvonne Jewkes
9 Children and Young Persons, Rod Morgan
10 Imprisonment in Old Age, Elaine Crawley
11 Women in Prison, Diana Medlicott
12 Black and Minority Ethnic Prisoners, Kimmett Edgar
13 Political Prisoners and the ‘War on Terror’, Kieran McEvoy, Kirsten McConnachie and Ruth Jamieson
Part 3: Prisons: Themes and Debates
Introduction Yvonne Jewkes
14 Security, Control and the Problems of Containment, Roy D. King
15 Problematizing Prison Privatization: An Overview of the Debate, James Mehigan and Abi Rowe
16 Prison Healthcare, Jane Senior and Jenny Shaw
17 Drugs in Prison, Michael Wheatley
18 Prison Suicide and its Prevention, Alison Liebling
19 Prisons and the Media: The Shaping of Public Opinion and Penal Policy in a Mediated Society, Yvonne Jewkes
Part 4: Staffing, Management and Accountability
Introduction Yvonne Jewkes
20 Prison Officers and Prison Culture, Helen Arnold, Alison Liebling and Sarah Tait
21 Governing, Leadership and Change, Andrew Coyle
22 Measuring Order & Control in HM Prison Service, Jamie Bennett
23 Inspecting Prisons - Prison Inspection and Accountability?, Richard Harding
24 Prisoners'Rights, Dirk van Zyl Smit
Part 5: Regimes, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
Introduction Yvonne Jewkes
25 Dangerous Offenders and Dangerousness, Sophie Holmes and Keith Soothill
26 Addressing Offending Behaviour: What Works and Beyond, Clive R. Hollin and Charlotte Bilby
27 Through the Prison Gate: Resettlement, Offender Management and the Birth of the ‘Seamless Sentence’, Kirsty Hudson, Mike Maguire and Peter Raynor
28 Prisoners’ Families, Alice Mills and Helen Codd
29 After Prison – What? The Ex-Prisoner’s Struggle to Desist from Crime, Shadd Maruna
30 Campaigning For and Campaigning Against Prisons: Excavating and Re-affirming the Case for Prison Abolition, Mick Ryan and Joe Sim
Glossary
Index
