Understanding Prison Staff

ISBN-13: 9781843922759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 480 str.

Jamie Bennett; Azrini Wahidin; Ben Crewe

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Prisons and Staff Issues  2. Personal reflections on prison staff  3. Prison staff: an international perspective  4. The experiences of black and minority ethnic prison staff  5. Prison officers and gender  6. Prison staff in the public and private sector  Part 2: Prison Officers  7. Industrial relations in prisons  8. Understanding prison officers: culture, cohesion and conflict  9. Staff and order in prisons  10. Creating ghosts in the penal machine: prison officer occupational morality and the techniques of denial  11. 'An inconvenient criminological truth': pain, punishment and prison officers  Part 3: Prison Managers  12. Prison governors: new public managers?  13. Change management in prisons  14. 'Resisting the scourge of managerialism': on the uses of discretion in late-modern prisons  15. The role of middle and first-line managers  Part 4: Prison Staff  16. The changing face of probation in prisons  17. Teachers and instructors in prisons  18. Psychologists in prisons  19. The prison drug worker  20. Health professionals in prisons  Part 5: Developing the Human Resources of Prisons  21. Recruitment and assessment of prison staff  22. Training and developing prison staff  23. The experience of prison officer training  Part 6: Conclusion  24. Concluding comments on the social world of prison staff