Understanding Prison Staff

by Bennett; Jamie

• ISBN13: 9781843922742
• ISBN10: 1843922746
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book provides insight into the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, draws attention to the variety, value and complexity of work within prisons.The book is divided into five main sections, covering prisons and staff issues, prison officers, the work of managers in prisons, the work of non-uniformed staff who work in prisons, and developing human resources in prisons.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prisons and Staff Issues

Personal reflections on prison staff

Prison staff: an international perspective

The experiences of black and minority ethnic prison staff

Prison officers and gender

Prison staff in the public and private sector

Prison Officers

Industrial relations in prisons

Understanding prison officers: culture, cohesion and conflict

Staff and order in prisons

Creating ghosts in the penal machine: prison officer occupational morality and the techniques of denial

'An inconvenient criminological truth': pain, punishment and prison officers

Prison Managers

Prison governors: new public managers?

Change management in prisons

Resisting the scourge of managerialism: on the uses of discretion in late-modern prisons

The role of middle and first-line managers

Prison Staff

The changing face of probation in prisons

Teachers and instructors in prisons

Psychologists in prisons

The prison drug worker

Health professionals in prisons

Developing the Human Resources of Prisons

Recruitment and assessment of prison staff

Training and developing prison staff

The experience of prison officer training

Conclusion

Concluding comments on the social world of prison staff

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