Prisons and Their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life

ISBN-13: 9780199271221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 592 str.

Alison Liebling; Helen Arnold

Opis

This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons.

Recenzje

...this book has produced a tool that is already making a real difference ... there is no doubt that this is a major achievement. ... Ultimately it is the real-life impact of this book ... which is likely to confirm Liebling's place in the prison and academic communities.

O autorze

Alison Liebling is University Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology. She is also a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Helen Arnold is at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.