Prisons after Woolf : reform through riot / edited by Elaine Player and Michael Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Player, Elaine.

Jenkins, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Great Britain.

Prisons.

Correctional institutions--Great Britain.

Correctional institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the past few years prisons have attracted much media attention, due to substantial increases in the prison population and the deteriorating conditions in which prisoners are held. In addition, there has been industrial action by prison officers and a series of disturbances and riots by prisoners. Following the riot at Strangeways prison in Manchester in 1990 Lord Justice Woolf was called to conduct an inquiry into the riots and their causes. Prisons After Woolf serves as a basic source of information on prison issues and reviews them in the light of the Woolf proposals. In so

Contents:

Cover; Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Control and Prison Conditions; 1. Reforming the Penal Wasteland? a Critical Review of the Woolf Report; 2. Order, Disorder and Regimes in the Prison Services of Scotland, and England and Wales; 3. Conditions and Standards; 4. From Rights to Expectations; 5. The Changing Face of Prison Discipline; 6. Woolf and Prison Staff: Still Looking for 'Good Goalers'; 7. Health Care in Prisons; Part II: Specific Groups of Prisoners; 8. An Awkward Anomaly: Remand Prisoners

9. Long-Term Prisoners10. Mentally Disordered Prisoners; 11. The Future for Sex Offenders in Prison; 12. Women's Prison's After Woolf; Part III: The Outside World; 13. The Relationship Between the Community and the Prison; 14. The Future of the Voluntary Sector and the Pressure Groups; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-89638-7

1-134-89639-5

1-280-32760-X

0-203-16091-6

9780203160916

OCLC:

437082486