1st Edition
Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment
416 Pages
by
Willan
416 Pages
by
Willan
416 Pages
by
Willan
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Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and concepts into the established prisons and penal lexicon.
At the same time courses on prisons and... Read more
List of entries. List of contributors. About this book. Introduction and overview. Prisons and punishment timeline. Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment. List of references
Biography
Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on the problems of policing cybercrime as well as more generally about the relationship between new technologies, crime and deviance. Her books include Dot.cons: crime, deviance and identity on the internet (Willan, 2003) and Media and Crime (Sage, 2004). She is co-founder and editor of Crime, Media, Culture: an international journal and editor of the Handbook on Prisons (Willan, 2007).
Jamie Bennett is Deputy Governor, HMP Whitemoor, and editor of the Prison Journal.
