1st Edition
Prisons and Community Corrections Critical Issues and Emerging Controversies
This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice. This volume addresses a range of 21st century issues faced by modern corrective services including, prison overcrowding, young and ageing offenders, mental health, sexual assault in corrective facilities, trans communities in corrective services and radicalisation of offenders within corrective services. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing together theoretical and practice debates, the book comprehensively considers current challenges and future trajectories for corrective systems, the people within them and service delivery. This volume will also be a welcomed resource for academics and researchers who have an interest in prisons, corrective services practice and broader criminal justice issues. It will also be of interest to those who want to join corrective services, those who are currently training to become personnel in corrective services and related allied professions, and those who are currently working in the field.
Forward: Jane L. Ireland (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Section 1: Systems
Chapter 1: Frameworks for Punishment: Implications on 21st Century Corrective Services
Piero Moraro
Chapter 2: The use of the death sentenceRobert Johnson and Esther Matthews
Chapter 3: Wrongful convictions and the implications for Corrective Services
Michele Ruyters, Gregory Stratton and Monique Moffa
Chapter 4: Prison overcrowding: Examining the problem through the prism of the European Court of Human Rights
Gaëtan Cliquennois and Philip Birch
Chapter 5: The Digital Prison: Towards an ethics of technology
Victoria Knight and Steven Van De Steene
Chapter 6: Privatising Corrections: Rethinking the issue
Jane Andrew, Max Baker, Christine Cooper and Jonny Tweedie
Chapter 7: A forgotten profession: The need to invest in prison officers
Andrew Clements and Gail Kinman
Section 2: PeopleChapter 8: Children in care: The criminalisation of children
Emma Colvin, Alison Gerard and Andrew McGrath
Chapter 9: Young People in corrections
Laura Abrams
Chapter 10: Ageing offenders in the prison environment
Rhonda Shaw
Chapter 11: Working with Trans communities in corrective services
Roberto H. Potter and Stephen T. Holmes
Chapter 12: Prison Gangs
Camila Nunes Dias , Michelle Butler and Gavin Slade
Chapter 13: Taking Stock of Sexual Assault in Correctional Facilities: Is it Time to Apply the
Evidence to Reduce Risk?
Eileen Ahlin
Section 3: Service Delivery
Chapter 14: Mental Health and Services in Prisons
Daniel Semenza and Meghan Noisky
Chapter 15: Adopting a ‘Creative Corrections’ approach for offender treatment programs
Louise A. Sicard and Philip Birch
Chapter 16: Dealing with radicalisation in corrective services: A global issue
Nathan Thompson
Chapter 17: Challenges for managing offenders in the community in the 21st Century: Global
Perspectives
Malcolm Pearse
Chapter 18: Transforming Rehabilitation: A failed experiment in throughcare and offender
reintegration
Matthew Cracknell and Julie Trebilcock
Chapter 19: Desistance-Focused Practice: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Offending Behaviour
and Building Social Integration
Deirdre Healey
Biography
Philip Birch, is an Associate Professor in Criminology & Policing in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Louise Sicard is a Sessional Lecturer in Criminology & Policing in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
