Handbook on Prisons

809 Pages·2007·4.23 MB·English

by  Yvonne Jewkes

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Handbook on Prisons

Handbook on Prisons
Edited by
Yvonne Jewkes
Published by
Willan Publishing
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ISBN 978-1-84392-185-1 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-84392-186-8 (hardback)
First published 2007
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Project management by Deer Park Productions, Tavistock, Devon
Typeset by GCS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds
Printed and bound by T.J. International, Padstow, Cornwall
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations xi
Notes on contributors xv
Introduction: understanding the prison xxiii
1 Imprisonment in the twenty-first century: a view from
the inspectorate 1
Anne Owers
Part 1: Prisons in Perspective 23

Introduction 23
Yvonne Jewkes
2 Prison histories and competing audiences, 1776–1966 27
Keith Soothill
3 The changing face of the English prison: a critical review of
the aims of imprisonment 49
David Scott
4 The politics of imprisonment 73
Richard Sparks
5 Imprisonment: some international comparisons and the need
to revisit panopticism 95
Roy D. King
6 The sociology of imprisonment 123
Ben Crewe

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7 Researching Russian prisons: a consideration of new and
established methodologies in prison research 152
Laura Piacentini
8 The evolution of prison architecture 174
Yvonne Jewkes and Helen Johnston
Part 2: Prisoners 197
Introduction 197
Yvonne Jewkes
9 Children and young persons 201
Rod Morgan
10 Imprisonment in old age 224
Elaine Crawley
11 Women in prison 245
Diana Medlicott
12 Black and minority ethnic prisoners 268
Kimmett Edgar
13 Political imprisonment and the ‘War on Terror’ 293
Kieran McEvoy, Kirsten McConnachie and Ruth Jamieson
Part 3: Themes and Debates 325

Introduction 325
Yvonne Jewkes
14 Security, control and the problems of containment 329
Roy D. King

15 Problematizing prison privatization: an overview of the debate 356
James Mehigan and Abigail Rowe
16 Prison healthcare 377
Jane Senior and Jenny Shaw
17 Drugs in prison 399
Michael Wheatley
18 Prison suicide and its prevention 423
Alison Liebling
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19 Prisons and the media: the shaping of public opinion and
penal policy in a mediated society 447
Yvonne Jewkes
Part 4: Staffing, Management and Accountability 467
Introduction 467
Yvonne Jewkes
20 Prison officers and prison culture 471
Helen Arnold, Alison Liebling and Sarah Tait
21 Governing, leadership and change 496
Andrew Coyle
22 Measuring order and control in the Prison Service 518
Jamie Bennett
23 Inspecting prisons 543
Richard Harding
24 Prisoners’ rights 566
Dirk van Zyl Smit
Part 5: Regimes, Rehabilitation and Resettlement 585

Introduction 585
Yvonne Jewkes
25 Dangerous offenders and dangerousness 589
Sophie Holmes and Keith Soothill
26 Addressing offending behaviour: ‘What Works’ and beyond 608
Clive R. Hollin and Charlotte Bilby

27 Through the prison gate: resettlement, offender management
and the ‘seamless sentence’ 629
Kirsty Hudson, Mike Maguire and Peter Raynor
28 After prison, what? The ex-prisoner’s struggle to desist
from crime 650
Shadd Maruna
29 Prisoners’ families 672
Alice Mills and Helen Codd
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30 Campaigning for and campaigning against prisons: excavating
and reaffirming the case for prison abolition 696
Mick Ryan and Joe Sim
Glossary 719
Index 732

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Acknowledgements
The Handbook on Prisons was a monster to put together! However, sincere
thanks go to all the authors who contributed to the book and who were
unfailingly responsive to my requests and prompts. Their patience and good
humour made the monster (somewhat) tameable. Special thanks go to the
contributors (you know who you are) who stepped in at a fairly – or very
– late stage when others went quiet, disappeared or threatened to take out
restraining orders on me. A huge debt of gratitude goes to Jamie Bennett who
reviewed all the chapters and whose insight and professional expertise were
invaluable. Sincere thanks also go to Roy King for his input at an early stage
in planning the content and organization of the book and to Tim Newburn for
sharing the joys and pitfalls of producing a Handbook of this kind. Finally,
thanks to Brian Willan for inviting me to take this on in the first place, and
to his colleagues at Willan Publishing, David Kershaw and the team at Deer
Park Productions for making the production process as smooth as it could
possibly be.

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