Prisons and community corrections : critical issues and emerging controversies / edited by Philip Birch and Louise Sicard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birch, Philip, editor.

Sicard, Louise A., editor.

Series:

Routledge innovations in corrections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community-based corrections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of tables

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

SECTION 1: Systems

1. Frameworks for punishment: Implications for 21st-century corrective services

2. The use of the death sentence

3. Wrongful convictions and the implications for corrective services

4. Prison overcrowding: Examining the problem through the prism of the European Court of Human Rights

5. The digital prison: Towards an ethics of technology

6. Privatising corrections: Rethinking the issue

7. A forgotten profession: The need to invest in the wellbeing of prison officers

SECTION 2: People

8. Children in care: The criminalisation of children

9. Abolition or expansion? Youth corrections in an era of reform

10. Ageing in prison: Implications for inmates and corrections

11. Transgender prisoners: From 'forgotten group' to a 'legitimate' vulnerable population in corrections

12. Prison gangs

13. Taking stock of sexual victimization among youth in correctional facilities: Is it time to apply the evidence to reduce risk?

SECTION 3: Service

14. Mental health and services in prisons and jails

15. Adopting a 'creative corrections' approach for offender treatment programs

16. Dealing with radicalisation in corrective services: A global issue

17. Managing offenders in the community in the 21st century: Global perspectives

18. Transforming Rehabilitation: A failed experiment in throughcare and offender reintegration

19.Desistance-focused practice: An innovative approach to reducing offending behaviour and building social integration

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-301056-3

1-003-01056-3

1-000-16840-9

9781003010562

OCLC:

1150834849