A guide to prisons and penal policy : prisons unlocked / Rachel Vipond.

This concise and accessible guide offers a critical overview of the prison system in England and Wales for students and practitioners. The book guides the reader through prison life as experienced by different stakeholder groups and is packed with learning features such as case studies and key conce...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Vipond, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Guide to Prisons and Penal Policy: Prisons Unlocked -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of Abbreviations -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Orienting the prison -- Scope of the book -- Themes that help us to understand prisons and penal policy -- How to use this book -- Aims of the book -- Before you go any further ... -- 2 The birth of the prison -- Introduction -- Punishment in an era before prison -- Developments from the 18th century onwards -- Victorian prisons -- The 20th century: what works? -- Summary 
505 8 |a 3 Prison: the modern context -- Introduction -- The prison estate in England and Wales -- Prison functions and categorisation -- Prison privatisation -- Geography of the prison estate -- Recent and current trends in prison populations -- Categorising prisoners -- Who is in prison? -- What are people in prison for and for how long? -- Summary -- 4 Doing time: how different groups experience prison differently -- Introduction -- Women in custody -- Salient issues -- Family contact -- Women's mental health -- Ethnically minoritised populations in custody -- Salient issues -- Placement in prison 
505 8 |a Adjudications in prison -- Release on temporary licence -- Racism within prisons -- Older people -- Salient issues -- Caring for an ageing population -- Provision for older prisoners -- Summary -- 5 Prison life -- Introduction -- Regimes -- Education and work -- Education and training -- Work and earning money inside -- Rewarding and punishing behaviour -- Food -- Healthcare -- Mental health -- Association -- Religious practice -- Extremism and radicalisation -- Summary -- 6 Theorising punishment and the pains of imprisonment -- Introduction -- Philosophies of punishment -- Reductivist principles 
505 8 |a Deterrence -- Incapacitation -- Rehabilitation -- Retributivist principles -- Just deserts -- The impact of being in prison -- Violence within the secure estate -- Self-harm -- Self-inflicted deaths in custody -- Summary -- 7 Doing prison work -- Introduction -- Who works in a prison? -- Role of a prison governor -- Role of a prison officer -- Prison officer staff culture -- Summary -- 8 Leaving prison, resettling and returning -- Introduction -- Desistance from crime -- Exploring release, resettlement and recall -- Release from prison -- Parole Board -- Resettlement -- Recall to prison 
505 8 |a Does prison work? -- Summary -- 9 Prison on an international scale -- Introduction -- A global look at imprisonment -- A tour of prisons around the world -- Australia -- Brazil -- India -- Japan -- Norway -- USA -- Who does prison best? -- Summary -- 10 What next for prisons? -- Introduction -- Current state of the prison system in England and Wales -- Social functions of imprisonment -- What next for prisons? -- Before you go ... -- References -- Index 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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