Prisoners' work and vocational training / Frances H. Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Frances H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prison industries--Great Britain.

Prison industries.

Convict labor--Great Britain.

Convict labor.

Prisoners--Employment--Great Britain.

Prisoners.

Ex-convicts--Employment--Great Britain.

Ex-convicts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1999.

Summary:

Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few studies have focused on the nature of prison work, prisoners' experience of it, and the extent to which it meets the need of rehabilitating prisoners. Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training sheds new light on this crucial area in the work of prisons and examines: *the nature of training received by prisoners *the actual work they undertake *how this relates to the world or work outside *the role it plays in helping to

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Six prisons; 3 Pictures of prison work, and comparisons with outside; 4 General features of prison work; 5 Vocational training in prisons; 6 Sink, float or swim: release from prison; 7 The challenge ahead; Appendix 1 Work instructors' aims; Appendix 2 Perceptions by prison staff and prisoners of the aims and purposes of prison work; Appendix 3 Statistical analyses of the follow-up sample; Notes and references; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-253) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-15094-7

1-134-75666-6

1-134-75667-4

0-203-97935-4

9786610150946

9780203979358

OCLC:

475943412