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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752.- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation.- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.- Index

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Trade Review“This book will serve practitioners, academics, students and policymakers well, especially those who are in need of brushing up on their knowledge of all things desistance. Time spent reading this book would be an expedient way of getting a handle on the complex field of desistance research.” (Jake Philips, Probation Journal, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1. Desistance in Perspective: Historical Work and the Identification of a Field of Study.- Chapter 2. Desistance under the Microscope: Definitions and Measurement.- Chapter 3. What Do We Know? Longitudinal Studies and Correlates of Desistance.- Chapter 4. Putting It All Together: Theories of Desistance from Crime.- Chapter 5. Integrated and Equal is Better: Desistance and Maturation.- Chapter 6. Putting Desistance Research to Work: Policy and Desistance Theory

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at various sentence stages and over 300 surveys, it explores the ways in which long-term prisoners respond to their convictions, adapt to the various challenges that they encounter and re-construct their lives within and beyond the prison. Focussing on such matters as personal identity, relationships with family and friends, and the management of time, the book argues that long-term imprisonment entails a profound confrontation with the self. It provides detailed insight into how such prisoners deal with the everyday burdens of their situation, feelings of injustice, anger and shame, and the need to find some sense of hope, control and meaning in their lives. In doing so, it exposes the nature and consequences of the life-changing termsTrade Review“The book offers a valuable and important contribution to sociological literature on long-term and life imprisonment. … The book presents honest and authentic accounts to reconsider the challenging implications of the topics explored. It contributes to social, criminological and geographical studies of incarceration and life course literature and will be of great interest to readers across these fields.” (Jayne Price, The British Journal of Criminology, April 21, 2020) Table of ContentsChapter One ..............................................................................................................................................Introduction...............................................................................................................................The abolition of capital punishment and the growth of the long life sentence ...............................The ‘tariff’ system for life-sentenced prisoners ................................................................................The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Schedule 21).....................................................................................The up-tariffing of ‘knife homicides’ and the rise of ‘joint enterprise’ .............................................Defining ‘long-term’ imprisonment...................................................................................................Understanding long-term imprisonment ..........................................................................................The impact of long-term imprisonment ............................................................................................Long-term imprisonment from young adulthood .............................................................................Chapter Two ..............................................................................................................................................Methods ....................................................................................................................................Research design .................................................................................................................................Access ................................................................................................................................................Ethics..................................................................................................................................................Interviews ..........................................................................................................................................Interview sample ..........................................................................................................................Surveys............................................................................................................................................... Development of the survey instrument .......................................................................................Conducting team research ................................................................................................................The research process .........................................................................................................................Interviewing women .....................................................................................................................Analysis ..............................................................................................................................................Interview analysis .........................................................................................................................Survey analysis..............................................................................................................................Methodological issues .......................................................................................................................Chapter Three............................................................................................................................................Pen portraits .............................................................................................................................. Seb, 20s, early-stage ..........................................................................................................................Gail, late-stage ...................................................................................................................................Campbell, 30s, mid-stage ..................................................................................................................Deena, 20s, mid-stage .......................................................................................................................Richard, 50s, post-tariff .....................................................................................................................Mahmood, 30s, mid-stage.................................................................................................................Chapter Four..............................................................................................................................................The early years ......................................................................................................................................Being ‘in shock’: acute stress reactions to conviction, sentencing and initial incarceration ............ Post-conviction: the initial pains of long indeterminate sentences.................................................. Existential dislocation and biographical rupture...............................................................................The affective dimensions of long indeterminate sentences ............................................................. Anger.............................................................................................................................................Surviving the early stage....................................................................................................................Suppression ..................................................................................................................................Escape ...........................................................................................................................................‘Jailing’ ..........................................................................................................................................Sublimation ...................................................................................................................................Concluding comments: ‘you just cope; you've got no other choice’ ................................................Chapter Five...............................................................................................................................................Coping and Adaptation .........................................................................................................................Stasis and survival ..............................................................................................................................‘Coming to terms’ ..............................................................................................................................‘Settling down’ and moving on: precipitating factors ....................................................................... Discourses of adaptation ...................................................................................................................Control ...............................................................................................................................................Hope, meaning and purposeHope, meaning, purpose and coping: faith and educationCoping, faith and educationDoing time, authority and compliance ..............................................................................................Enduring and emergent problems.....................................................................................................Projects and concerns........................................................................................................................Discussion .......................................................................................................................................... Chapter Six.................................................................................................................................................Social relations ......................................................................................................................................Dislocation of social world – natal and nuclear family......................................................................The rupturing of intimate relationships .......................................................................................Estrangement from family ............................................................................................................Worries about family .........................................................................................................................Impact on family members’ psychological and physical wellbeing.............................................. Impact on family life .....................................................................................................................Repercussions for family ..............................................................................................................Compromised role identities .............................................................................................................Male prisoners as sons .................................................................................................................Women as mothers ......................................................................................................................Dislocation from social world - peers ................................................................................................Reforming a social world in prison ....................................................................................................Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................Chapter Seven ...........................................................................................................................................Identity and the self ..............................................................................................................................Dislocation from the self ...................................................................................................................Social dislocation and self-identity ....................................................................................................Environmental demands...............................................................................................................Self-reconstruction (i): implications of the offence for identity........................................................Self-reconstruction (ii): making sense of the changing self............................................................... The ethical self ............................................................................................................................Post-traumatic growth and the ‘stronger, better self’ ................................................................. The more mature self ...................................................................................................................Finding the ‘real me’: The developed authentic self ........................................................................Chapter Eight.............................................................................................................................................Time and place ......................................................................................................................................Temporal vertigo ...............................................................................................................................Living ‘day-by-day’ .............................................................................................................................Time strategies ..................................................................................................................................The experience of time ...................................................................................................................... The prison as a non-place ..................................................................................................................Time strategies II ...............................................................................................................................Contextual maturity...........................................................................................................................Time and release................................................................................................................................Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................Chapter Nine .............................................................................................................................................Discussion ..............................................................................................................................................

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Book SynopsisThis unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. Using case studies, the book offers a fresh angle on a topic that is of growing interest both in the UK and internationally.Trade Review"A compelling, honest and moving book which will make a huge contribution to the field." Belinda Hopkins, Transforming Conflict"A well-researched, original and welcome contribution to the growing literature on restorative justice, focusing on the development of empathy to gradually reveal the layers of the restorative process." Marian Liebmann, OBE, Independent Restorative Justice Trainer and ConsultantTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Empathy Level Zero: Hurting; Crime and unhappiness; The gap caused by crime; Part Two: Empathy Level One: Seeing; Entering the criminal justice system; Into the criminal courts; Part Three: Empathy Level Two: Voicing; Unripe restorative justice; Restorative enquiry; The keys and blocks to restorative justice; Choice, encouragement or coercion?; Part Four: Empathy Level Three: Hearing; Indirect restorative justice; The restorative meeting; Part Five: Empathy Level Four: Helping; 'Doing sorry'; Does it always go so well?; Part Six: Empathy Level Five: Healing; Into the heart of restorative justice; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisNorman Parker spent twenty-five years of his life in a high security Category A prison. Convicted of murder and manslaughter in the 1970s, he was sentenced to life at the notorious Parkhurst Prison. An institution filled with the most sinister and violent criminals, Parkhurst is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Norman Parker has certainly seen a lot during his time on the inside, and this is his complete collection of tales from behind the bars. During his gruelling years on the inside, he encountered some of the highest-profile criminals in Britain, from the Kray twins to the Great Train Robbers. With so many dangerous characters, and their deep and dark pasts, there are plenty of stories to tell. From a real-life Hannibal Lector and his murderous cannibal past to a petty thief whose experiences in prison turned him into a brutal and cold-hearted killer. The IRA bomber who deems theft as morally wrong and Vic, a loose cannon who proved that prison was no safer than the outside world as inmates feared for their lives. "The Complete Parkhurst Tales" is a shockingly powerful and intimate portrayal of the prison system is filled with Norman Parker's sharp intelligence and witty observations on every aspect of the secret world in one of Britain's toughest jails.

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Book SynopsisA major collection of writings about the transforming power of education in British prisons. Prison(er) Education comprises key essays by leading prison education practitioners, academics and prisoners, including new work on how to evaluate the 'success' of education within prison by Dr Ray Pawson of Leeds University, and Stephen Duguid of Simon Fraser University, Canada. A major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond 'basic skills', and at a time when prison regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses. Edited by two leading experts on prison education in the United Kingdom - Professor David Wilson of the University of Central England (a former prison governor and co-presenter of BBC TV's Crime Squad), and Dr Anne Reuss of the University of Abertay (who previously taught at HM Prison Full Sutton). Weaving anecdote, research and evaluation, Prison(er) Education presents for the first time a comprehensive account of education inside British prisons. At the heart of the book lies the question 'Who is prison education for: prison or prisoners?' This book is a major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond 'basic skills', and at a time when regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses. Weaving anecdote with solid research and evaluation, the book presents for the first time in Britain a comprehensive account of education inside prisons. Reviews 'Highly authoritative ...a major challenge': Inside Time 'This book will be of interest to anyone working in the Prison Service, and to educators in general...Non-academic staff will recognise the conflicts, constraints, and challenges, that teachers and learners face...': Sally Bishens, Prison Service Journal 'A diverse, informative survey...of great importance in more ways then can easily be listed': Michael McMullan, Justice of the Peace Editors Prison(er) Education is introduced and concluded by David Wilson and Anne Reuss (who also contributes a chapter on 'Conducting Research in Prisons') with their vision of the direction education in prison should take in the years to come. David Wilson is professor of criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Policy and Research at the University of Central England in Birmingham. A former prison governor, he is editor of the Howard Journal and a well-known author, broadcaster and presenter for TV and radio, including for the BBC, C4 and Sky Television. He has written three other books for Waterside Press: The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz (with the latter), Images of Incarceration: Representations of Prison in Film and Television Drama (with Sean O'Sullivan) (2004), and Serial Killers: Hunting Britons and Their Victims 1960-2006 (2007). Dr Anne Reuss lectures in the Sociology Department of the University of Abertay in Scotland. Prior to taking up this appointment, she taught degree level sociology to prisoners at HMP Full Sutton, which formed the basis of her doctoral dissertation - now regarded as the benchmark of research in this field.Trade Review'Highly authoritative ... a major challenge':Inside Time'This book will be of interest to anyone working in the Prison Service, and to educators in general... Non-academic staff will recognise the conflicts, constraints, and challenges, that teachers and learners face...':Sally Bishens, Prison Service Journal'A diverse, informative survey... of great importance in more ways then can easily be listed':Michael McMullan, Justice of the Peace

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Book SynopsisA leading text of worldwide renown: available in Norwegian, Danish, English, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian - and now being translated into Chinese. Highly acclaimed, Prison On Trial is the classic critique of prisons and imprisonment: a book for everyone's library shelf and collection. For anyone seeking to understand the modern trend towards locking-up ever more people, it distills the arguments for and against incarceration in a readable, accessible and authoritative way - gaining in status each time prison populations increase across large parts of the world. In this new Third Edition - with its New Preface, Epilogue and other Revisions (plus all the material from earlier editions) - the author expands on the control aspects of prison, the gear change brought about by responses to international terrorism post-September 11 and the London bombings and explains how contemporary events are changing the boundaries of crime and punishment and increasing the risks to civil liberties and the Rule of Law. Thomas Mathiesen also argues for an 'Alternative Public Space' where discussion of serious and fundamental issues of this nature can take place free from the superficial world of knee-jerk reactions from politicians and the entertainment-driven needs of the press and media. Prison On Trial distils the arguments for and against imprisonment in a readable, accessible and authoritative way - making Thomas Mathiesen's work a classic for students and other people concerned to understand the real issues. It is as relevant today as when it was first published - arguably more so as policy-making becomes increasingly politicized and true opportunities to influence developments diminish. Mindful of this, Mathiesen recommends an 'alternative public space' where people can engage in valid discussion on the basis of sound information, free from the survival priority of the media - to entertain.Trade Review'Does exactly what it says on the cover: it puts the institution of prison on trial ... this is vitally important ... Retains its place as a leading presentation of the abolitionist case'--Prison Service Journal; 'A classic for students and other people'--Inside Time.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword; Preface to the 2006 Edition; Preface to the 2000 Edition; From the Preface to the Original 1990 Edition. CHAPTERS 1.Prison: Does it have a Defence? 2.Rehabilitation. 3.General Prevention. 4.Other Theories of Social Defence. 5.Justice. 6.The Future of Imprisonment. Postscript. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIt is shocking that although just one per cent of children are taken into care by local authori-ties, almost 30 per cent of prisoners have been in care. Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of abandonment, loneliness and rejection in family life, the care system and beyond begins at age nine and ends with him turning his life around after being moved from pillar to post, crime, drugs, 'going missing' and custody. Ten years on, he works to motivate young people from similar backgrounds to believe that they can do the same; that whatever life throws at them they should "Never, ever, give up". It is also a warning to parents, professionals and carers alike: to listen to what young people have to say, to make time for and reassure them and to recog-nise the often small but important things that make a difference in the bewildering world of growing-up.Trade Review`A powerful book that gives a hard-hitting account of the care system... and is vital reading for anyone wishing to learn about the true effects of multiple placement moves and the resilience it takes to "never, ever give up"'- Guardian; 'Perhaps this inspirational memoir will encourage psychologists and social workers to spend more time listening to children and finding ways to build on their strengths and interests'- The Psychologist; The book was described as inspirational, powerful, emotional, compelling and required reading for anyone interested in the care system when released on Kindle, e.g. 'An inspiring and moving account of the trauma and distress caused to a young boy by his family and our care system': Sarah 'How do you fix pieces that have been utterly shattered - as a parent, ex-care man and professional psychologist I wish I knew - I guess the resolution to do so has to be out there': Dr Peter MacParlin. 'A very raw book - but this only adds to the sense of passion and honesty with which it is written': Fiona Sorsby, Bingley, West Yorkshire. 'This motivational read is such a hard hitting tale - it's heartfelt and gives such a clear first-hand account of life living in a care home - A brilliant worthwhile read about a man who truly turned his life around': Stacey Spencer.Table of ContentsForeword; Life Before the Moves; Reading My Rights; Fishing For Freedom; Captain Ben!; Winning; Moving to Mixenden; Abandoned; Move #1; The First Cut is the Deepest; Heartbreak; Kicking-Off; Arrested; And So, the Moves Begin …; I Need Help, Not Moving; Meeting John; The Summer of ‘97; The Witch and Darren; Running Home; Back With Mom; Spiralling; Secured For Safety; One Last Chance; Medway; Rock Bottom; The Only Way Is Up; Never, Ever Give Up; Index.

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Book SynopsisLeading edge information and ideas from two of the UK's most respected practitioners and authorities. A handbook for people who want to make a difference when working with prisoners. It suggests the tools for this and offers guidance - and is wholly up to speed with what is happening in UK prisons. * Essential reading for every RJ practitioner and student * One of the most important penal reform books for years - Part of a major initiative across UK prisons * Designed to be used in conjunction with the free toolkits available for download from www.WatersidePress.co.uk/RJTools Restorative Justice in Prisons was launched at Brixton Prison in 2006. Prison as an institution is sometimes taken to represent the opposite of restorative justice. The culture of prisons includes coercion, highly structured and controlled regimes, banishment achieved through physical separation, and blame and punishment - whereas restorative justice values empowerment, voluntarism, respect, and treating people as individuals. Recent developments in some prisons demonstrate a far more welcoming environment for restorative work. Examples such as reaching out to victims of crime, providing prisoners with a range of opportunities to make amends and experimenting with mediation in response to conflicts within prisons show that it is possible to implement restorative justice principles in everyday prison activities. Guided by restorative justice, prisons can become places of healing and personal transformation, serving the community as well as those directly affected by crime: victims and offenders. This new book advocates the further expansion of restorative justice in prisons. Building on a widespread interest in the concept and its potential, the authors have produced a guide to enable prisons and the practitioners who work in and with them to translate the theory into action. Reviews 'This book is evidence that restorative approaches have much to offer the prison services in seeking to make their operations effective in meeting prisoner and public needs ...It successfully translates theory into practice and provides a model for organisational and cultural change in prisons': International Review of Victimology 'What strikes you as you read through this text is the sheer simplicity with which Edgar and Newell have captured the changes that are so apparently needed in the prison system today': Andy Bain, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of PortsmouthTrade Review'This is essential reading not just for those interested in penal policy, but for anyone with a broader interest in effecting organisational change.'Thames View (June 2007)'This is a wonderfully useful tool for influencing policymakers towards a better system. Meticulously researched and rationally argued throughout, the authors speak direct to government, police and prison service on their own terms, neatly arguing that all those institutions will achieve their objectives, if they adopt the restorative approach... There are wonderful insights in this book as we would expect from two professionals who have devoted so much of their lives to work in our prisons... it is the authors' unerring grasp of current police, prison and government cultures and their confidence that these can be moved gently towards restorative justice, that makes this book so significant for prison reform.'John Myhill JP, The Magistrate'In the hands of creative and visionary correctional leaders, [this book] will inevitably serve to inspire and equip them toward meaningful and lasting change. For many people, the marriage of restorative justice and prisons is an unimaginable relationship - one destined to produce either still birth or monster child. Much of what has been written about restorative justice in the past can readily be characterized as a criticism of the power and processes embedded in the more familiar "find, prove and punish" criminal justice system we've become used to. At its extreme, some restorative justice writers define the concept in almost revolutionary terms - restoring to the average person the conflicts which have been stolen from them by their government. Any attempt to work with existing criminal justice players, from this viewpoint, is seen as undermining the true intent of the restorative justice movement.On the other hand, for most societies, prisons have become the extreme embodiment of punishment. It is the most severe expression of control which the government can exercise over its population. In application, prisons have given rise to cultures which are largely oppressive - based on discipline, regimentation and control. On the surface, it seems the least likely candidate as a breeding ground for restorative justice. It is easy to imagine restorative justice dying under the weight of this oppression or being transformed into yet another tool to justify the control of the state.At least, that is what it looks like in caricatured world.In this book, Edgar and Newell sensitively and realistically cover much needed territory. They offer restorative justice advocates a much clearer picture of the prison context. At the same time, they offer those involved with prisons a much clearer picture of restorative justice. While never denying the inherit challenges and incompatibilities that exist between prisons and restorative justice, the authors offer astute observations about numerous practical opportunities for transforming the prison experience so that it can contribute broadly to a restorative response to crime.Using the first two chapters to introduce some core theory about restorative justice, its application and potential role in prisons, the authors next venture into a comprehensive overview of prison cultures. By identifying an organizational culture web that consists of six dimensions (power structures, organisational structures, control systems, routines/rituals, myths/stories, symbols), they are able to isolate specific ideas and examples of how to affect broad based culture change within prisons. Moreover, the fifth chapter translates this into a more detailed description of a restorative prison and focuses on three key areas to illustrate how restorative justice could be brought to life. The sixth chapter identifies trends within the United Kingdom that seem to compel and support the evolution of restorative justice prisons in that country. In the seventh and final chapter, the authors offer key advice about areas that require special attention in pursuing the objective of restorative prisons.More than a philosophical argument for restorative justice in prisons, Edgar and Newell draw heavily on their personal and professional experiences as well as on those of others. Their observations are grounded firmly in the real world. As their title suggests, the book compels one to action. While the frequent references specific to U.K. prisons can be somewhat disorienting to foreign eyes, the lessons that underlie them are universal. This book would be an asset to anyone interested in the evolution of prison roles. In the hands of creative and visionary correctional leaders, it will inevitably serve to inspire and equip them toward meaningful and lasting change.Scott Harris, Director, Restorative Justice, Correctional Service of Canada'A book of international importance ... An authoritative guide' This unique volume addresses a major gap in the already impressive range of literature on Restorative Justice. Not even the most comprehensive study to date, Sullivan and Tifft (eds.) A Handbook of Restorative Justice: a Global Perspective (2006), touches the critical issue of the place of restorative processes in prisons. Edgar and Newell's persuasive and well-documented work is therefore of international importance.Edgar and Newell are persuaded that restorative processes have 'great potential to humanize prisons, improve safety, enhance social order, and make the experience less hostile and damaging for all concerned.' They are also keenly aware that prisons can serve as sanctuaries in which prisoners are prepared for re-integration into civil society. But surely, some might argue, that is precisely what is happening in prisons already. After all, the Statement of Purpose for HM Prisons declares the duty to care for prisoners 'with humanity and help them lead law-abiding and useful lives in custody and after release.' But as the fascinating history of HM Prisons reveals, vision and reality do not yet fully converge. To be sure, the system has been changing in very profound ways over the past 250 years in response to new wisdom and societal understandings. (See, for example, Brodie, Croom and Davies' illustrated Behind Bars: The Hidden Architecture of England's Prisons, 1999). The book by Edgar and Newell is part of that creative process.Ultimately, justice is about values, and it is these that the authors are particularly adept at exploring. Those in correctional professions will find themselves challenged to re-think the cultures of restraint and authority which characterize much of prison life. But they will be aided along the way by expert authors who fully understand the deep tensions inherent among contending philosophies of justice and correctional practice. The authors respect and explain the significant differences between the two major correctional approaches: RJ on the one hand, and what one generally refers to as 'the retributive approach' on the other. They reject the notion of some justice practitioners that RJ is a 'soft touch' that does not give criminals 'what they deserve;' they reject equally the notion of some RJ advocates who find prisons anathema. The authors do not see prisons and RJ as standing necessarily in opposition at all. Indeed, they remain convinced that the restorative focus on the stakeholders of any crime - victims, offenders, community, and indeed justice officials themselves - make it an ideal complement to the criminal justice system. Central to this view is RJ's methods of problem-solving and dealing with trauma. A distinctive strength of RJ is its future-orientation that sets its sights on re-integrative and healing outcomes. It aims at harmony rather than merely order for its own sake.The authors introduce their subject by defining Restorative Justice, examining its varieties of emphasis and approach, and elucidating the concepts of empowerment and particularity. The latter focuses on the unique aspects of each situation, and recognizes that no two situations of harm are ever precisely the same. This often calls for different solutions to apparently similar conflicts. Continuing in this vein, the authors compare RJ and the criminal justice system in the UK , and evaluate RJ and prisons. Subsequent chapters deal with 'restorative values' (such as healing, voluntary participation, inclusiveness and personal accountability), organizational culture (i.e. 'the cultural web of prisons'), resistance to change (i.e. conflicting paradigms, social order in prison, cultural resistance within the police), and suggest a model for the restorative prison. The book blends both theory and practice. Thus it examines the foundations of a restorative prison, operational applications of RJ, restorative work in pre-release and complaints, responsibility in sentencing, and the National Action Plan to Reduce Re-Offending. It concludes with clear guidance for criminal justice agencies and summarizes the experience of using restorative methods in prisons. Appendices provide case-studies, and a glossary of terms.One area receives rather less overt attention than others: the role of faith traditions in RJ practice. Perhaps this is because the demographics of the UK do not yet reveal a significant level of pluralism and multiculturalism. Yet, if media reports are any indication, that time will come very soon. Meanwhile, countries like New Zealand and Canada have led in this field in both theory and practice. Here the Handbook, mentioned above, devotes a number of chapters to the diverse spiritual foundations of RJ, to multi faith reflection on crime, and on justice as sanctuary. These chapters recognize RJ as a spiritual process that can transform persons, situations and institutions. That said, these understandings underpin the volume by Edgar and Newell. The authors are implicitly aware of the bedrock foundations on which their arguments rest. Their book on Restorative Justice in Prisons is an authoritative guide to making it happen.Michael L. Hadley, University of Victoria, CanadaTable of ContentsForeword Erwin JamesCHAPTER1. Introduction and BackgroundDefining restorative justiceVarieties of restorative practicesEmpowerment and particularityWhat is, and is not, restorative justice?Restorative justice and criminal justice in the UKRestorative justice and prisonsConclusion2. Restorative ValuesThe core values of restorative justiceProgramme integrityPressure points in the definitionParadigm shift or evolution?3. Organizational CultureIntroducing restorative culture into prisons 38 Organizational cultureThe cultural web of prisonsRestorative influences on the cultural webA restorative system of building social order4. Resistance to ChangeConflicting paradigmsWhat matters in prisonValues, restorative justice and conflictSocial order in prisonValues inherent in Prison Service policiesCultural resistance within the policeA model for the restorative prison5. What a Restorative Justice Prison WouldLook LikeThe foundations of a restorative prisonOperational applications of restorative justicePre-release, anti-bullying and complaintsConclusion6. The Restorative SentenceResponsibility in sentencingThe responsible sentenceSome further thoughtsPrisons, restoring offenders and the harms of social exclusionNational Action Plan to Reduce Re-offendingThe role of the prison officerPromoting social re-inclusionComments on the Action Plan7. ConclusionGuidance for criminal justice agenciesExperience of restorative methods in prisonsNext stepsAppendix: Two Case StudiesGlossary of TermsReferencesIndexList of Diagrams, Figures, Tables and Boxes

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Book SynopsisEscalating resort to prisons, longer sentences, overcrowded and ineffective regimes, high rates of re-offending and eclectic penal policy all combine to fuel this crisis, whilst failing to reduce offending. In this new book, David J Cornwell, author of the acclaimed "Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice" (ISBN 9781904380207), argues that the symptoms of this penal malaise are grounded in media sensationalism of crime and the need of politicians and their advisers to retain electoral credibility. Change is long overdue, but it requires a fresh, contemporary penology based on Restorative Justice. This book challenges the status quo, asks 'different questions' and places victims of crime at the centre of the criminal justice process.Trade Review'This book offers a sustained argument for restorative justice, and should be heeded by politicians and practitioners alike. Whether either have the courage to take this way of thinking remains to be seen': Internet Law Book Reviews. 'The reader is challenged to ask different questions about "true justice" in a book which provides true food for thought in well argued fashion': The Justices' Clerk'David Cornwell seeks to drill down into [the key] issues. This book identifies the organizational stresses and strains, the target-setting, the policy "blips" and all the problems of trying to bring radical change to our criminal justice system': Sir Charles Pollard QPM Director, Restorative Solutions, former Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police Service 'An important and timely contribution to the literature': Mark S Umbreit. 'One of the leading writers in the [restorative justice] campaign... intelligent and helpful... an urgent call to action particularly about the penal crisis which hangs permanently over this country's head': Justice of the PeaceTable of ContentsCONTENTSAcknowledgementsDedicationPrefaceForeword by Mark S. Umbreit, PhDIntroductionThe Need for this Book'Restorative Justice' and 'Community Justice': A Recipe for Confusion?The Necessity for ChangeThe Politics of Justice: A British Perspective'Instrumentalism' in Criminal JusticeThe Structure of this BookDoing Justice Better: What Restorative Justice ProposesChapter1. The Politics of Restorative Justice, Critique, Analysis And the Basis of the Discussion Sketching the Contemporary BackgroundThe Motivation for ChangeThe Challenge of Restorative Justice2. Making Justice Restorative: The Need for a New PenologyStarting to Think the UnthinkableWhy a New Penology?The Need for a New Concept of RehabilitationThe Demands of Restorative Justice on OffendersThe Demands of Restorative Justice on Victims and CommunitiesThe Demands of Restorative Justice on Legal SystemsUnlocking the Door to a New Penology3. Victims' Voices: The Place of Victims in a Restorative Justice SettingSome Preliminary ObservationsCrime as the Creator of ObligationsCrime Violates Victims and CommunitiesThe Mythical Nature of Victim's RightsObligations Involve 'Putting Things Right'Victim Participation in Criminal Justice ProcessesWhy Victims Matter4. Penal Politics, Reparation and Restoration: Towards a Pragmatic PositionThe Contemporary Politics of Criminal JusticePolitics, Power and Penological RhetoricRetribution and Reparation: Penetrating the Linguistic MazeReparation, Restoration and Reintegration: Virtue out of NecessityReparation and Restoration: A Bridge Too Far?Towards a New Image of Corrections5. Making Prisons Reparative and Restorative: Designing for Outcomes in Custodial CorrectionsA Very Uncertain Starting PointThe Legacy of the PenitentiaryChanging the Ethos and Social Purpose of PrisonsThe Concept of Reparative PrisonsDesigning Prison Facilities for Reparative OutcomesOperating Regimes for Reparative OutcomesMaking Prisons Community-FriendlyAccommodating the Unrepentant and Incorrigible:A Different Approach to Custodial Corrections6. Community Justice: The Potential for Expanding Non-Custodial CorrectionsThe Politics of Community Penology: Preliminary ObservationsChanging Public Attitudes and Punishment RhetoricMaking Community Corrections CredibleThe Coulsfield Report 2004, and Rethinking Crime and PunishmentHalliday and Punishment in the Community: Confusion and CompromiseThe Finnish Perspective and its ImplicationsCommunity Corrections in a 'Cul-de-Sac'Can Restorative Justice Resolve this Impasse?7. Doing Justice Better: Making Restorative Justice WorkShifting the Criminal Justice ParadigmRestorative Justice Poses Different QuestionsThinking Differently about Crime and PunishmentProcedural ConsiderationsVictim Inclusiveness: The Hallmark of Restorative JusticeReparation and Pragmatism: Means Towards EndsReparative Custody: Socially Responsible ExclusionPurposeful Community PenologyMoving Towards 'Joined-Up' CorrectionsConclusionPostscriptBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA unique and telling insight into life in a claustrophobic and sometimes violent atmosphere. An ideal primer on women's issues within the penal system. With 8 pages of colour illustrations.Trade Review'With many of its pages taken up with the contradictory, unexpected events that Beauchamp witnessed-at once fascinating, bizarre and heart-wrenching-the book is an amalgam of personal interactions bound together by a graphic texture that conveys the look, feel, smell and sound of the prison-a place where every seemingly random noise translates into a meaning': Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 'This book should be read by every taxpayer in the country because it shines a light on what is often a dark place': Inside Time. 'Describing the work of the Education Department of Britains biggest prison for women is a daunting task in itself. Hilary Beauchamp has excelled and captured the very essence and spirit of this exasperating, contradictory, bi-polar afflicted enterprise. Succesful teaching in prisons has always depended on exceptionally dedicated and gifted teachers and on these criteria Hilary is in a class of her own. Reading her book reveals just how well deserved was her MBE - a George Cross for sheer bravery would also have been appropriate!': Erlend Lee, former HoD Education, HMP Holloway. 'A valued social contribution to recent studies in applied criminology and a work which all researchers and students should read and critically appreciate, especially if they have not been involved hitherto in 'the sharp end' of things... makes good reading for a wide market: from law students and social workers, to teachers and all involved in socially useful work where Hilary Beauchamp has certainly picked up the vibes of what we do as part of the criminal justice process as lawyers': Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers.'After reading this book one is reminded of comments by Joan Bakewell. In 2006 she called for the majority of women prisoners to be released from Holloway on the premise that most of them were not violent criminals and needed emotional support or psychological help rather than detention': Camden New Journal. 'An excellent text ... Hilary Beauchamp writes wonderfully, vividly and honestly': Ben Whittaker, former barrister, MP and Government Minister. 'I have enormous admiration for Hilary Beauchamp and this book is a fascinating contribution in a field which has not been widely covered ... She has a longstanding track record of quality projects ... someone of total integrity': Lord David Putnam, film director 'Artists are lucky - poets, composers or painters - because rather than commit murder they can produce a work of art on the subject instead': Maggi Hamblyn, artist (from the Foreword)Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Lisa-Shirley 2. The Competition 3. Occupational Therapy 4. Murals and other Enterprises 5. Monday 6. One Week 7. Sickness 8. Violence Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisA brand new book by eminent legal biographer and historian John Hostettler. Hard on the heels of his acclaimed work with Richard Braby on Sir William Garrow, comes a further text on one of crime and punishments under-recorded and maybe unsung heroes. In eighteenth century continental Europe penal law was barbaric. Gallows were a regular feature of the landscape, branding and mutilation common and there existed the ghastly spectacle of men being broken on the wheel. To make matters worse, people were often tortured or put to death for minor crimes (sometimes both) and often without any trial at all. Like a bombshell, a book entitled On Crimes and Punishments, exploded onto the scene in 1764 with shattering effect. Its author was a young nobleman named Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794). A central message of that - now classic - work were that such punishments were part of 'a war of nations against their citizens' and should be abolished. It was a cri de coeur for thorough reform of the law affecting punishments and it swept across the continent of Europe like wildfire, being adopted by one ruler after another. It even crossed the Atlantic to the new United States of America, in the hands of Thomas Jefferson. In a wonderful sentence which concludes Beccaria's book, he sums up matters as follows: 'In order that every punishment may not be an act of violence, committed by one man or by many against a single individual, it ought to be above all things public, speedy, necessary, the least possible in the given circumstances, proportioned to its crime [and] dictated by the laws'. A welcome addition to the Waterside Press list of biographical and historical works, this new book on Cesare Beccaria - targeted to highlight matters of both universal and current relevance - will be of considerable interest to anyone wishing to trace the development of the rights of individuals charged with or convicted of crimes, and of the importance of fairness, proportionality, decency and similar matters which may be at-risk in the wrong hands. Civilising penal law remains a topical issue but it began with the subject of this work.Table of ContentsPreface About the author 1. A Modest Man Crime and Punishment House Arrest Academy of Fists Thomas Jefferson A Changing World Retribution Break with Friends Death 2. Secret Accusations and Torture The Effects of Secrecy Torture a MercyA" Trial by Ordeal Consecrated Cruelty Bentham on Torture Voltaire 3. The Death Penalty Ancient Origin War Against Citizens Deprivation of Liberty Judicial Murder Acceptance in Continental Europe Impact in England The Rev. Martin Madan Archdeacon Paley Criminal Law Commissioners 4. Criminal Law and Punishments Reform of Criminal Justice Penal Law The Origins of Punishments and the Right to Punish Interpretation of the Law Consequences Spirit of the Law Obscurity of the Law The Division of Punishments Crimes of High Treason Voltaire Personal Security The Purpose of Punishment Prompt Punishment Public Tranquility Pleas of the Crown and Confessions 5. Crimes Difficult to Prove and Others Presumptions Adultery Homosexuality Infanticide Suicide Voltaire on Suicide Smuggling Bankruptcy Leading Questions Oaths Sanctuaries Extradition 6. Various Topics and Imprisonment Prosecutions and Prescriptions Criminal Attempts Accomplices Evidence and Proofs of a Crime Witnesses William Garrow Imprisonment John Howard Voltaire 7. Other Punishments Crimes of Violence Punishment of Nobles Theft and Robbery Ill-repute Rewards for Detaining or Killing Criminals Criminal Procedure Voltaire Mildness of Punishments The Means of Preventing Crimes Science Magistrates Certainty of Punishments-Pardons False Ideas of Utility Family Spirit Voltaire's Commentary 8. Profound Impact The French Revolution and Adversary Trial Human Rights and Voltaire's Causes Celebres John Adams 9. Conclusion Success Revolution England Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of its kind by a serving lifer. Contains a Foreword by Tim Newell, former Prison Governor life-sentence expert. A snapshot of the most severe sentence available in the UK which treats key topics in 40 easy to read sections. Alan Baker's personal selection and treatment of topics of concern to life-sentenced prisoners looks at subjects across the life-sentence regime. Ranging from the realisation which 'kicks in' after being sentenced in the dock - shock, numbness, hopelessness - to the intrinsic nature of long-term imprisonment, it is an explanatory handbook and survivor's guide. Life Imprisonment looks at aspects of long-term imprisonment from inside the head of a lifer: daily preoccupations, the uncertainty about when he or she will be released, the long years ahead, time for reflection, work towards release, setbacks and coping mechanisms and staying out of trouble. It tells about how a life sentence leads to risk assessments, courses, reports, psychological tests and possibly a period in a therapeutic community and/or a resettlement prison. To this first-hand knowledge, Alan Baker adds his thoughts on the state of the prisons, having experienced first-hand the impact that the justice system has on have on someone serving a sentence with no fixed end date. The result is a book packed with useful information as well as an insider's perspective on the major concerns of life-sentenced prisoners, whether about their sentence, future, their victims or the (often greatly magnified) minutiae of prison life.Trade Review'Offers some useful advice encouraging prisoner readers to behave "positively" in order to obtain what they need to progress or gain privileges, including encouraging them to take charge of their sentence. It would seem appropriate for this book to be available in libraries in "local" prisons or in court holding cells, as well as in visitors’ centres for families and friends to gain an insight into the often closed world of prisons'-- Prison Service Journal; '[It is] welcome to see a book that can provide advice and support for this group of prisoners that is written by a peer...a mixture of practical information and personal "tips" from one who has "walked the walk" on how best to stay out of trouble, progress, and work towards release'-- Probation Journal; `A hard-hitting set of survival notes from someone writing with great experience of having walked the walk. It is grounded in reality … Alan Baker writes with sound practical advice and insight which is not for the feint-hearted. He takes prison seriously, recognising it as the place you don’t want to be’-- Tim Newell (From the Foreword).Table of ContentsTo My Victims; After Sentence; Stages of an Indeterminate Sentence; Tariffs; Parole; Paper Reviews; Release from Closed Conditions; Escorted Town Visits; Single Cell Occupancy; Prisoners Protesting Their Innocence; The Offender Assessment System (OASys); The Personal Officer Scheme; Therapeutic Communities; Making a Contribution; Prison Visits; Open Conditions; Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL); Lifer Recall; Driving Lessons; Travelling Abroad; Personality Disorder; Prison Politics; Bullying; Same Sex Relationships; Drugs and Healthcare; Money Management; Mental Health Issues; Self-Harm; Hygiene Adjudications; Artificial Insemination; Complaints Procedures; Access to Official Files; The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA); Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC); The High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights; Offending Behaviour Courses; Possessions and Volumetric Control; Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime?; Bereavement; Emotional Trauma and Mental Health; Some Useful Addresses; Prison Slang.

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Book SynopsisConfessions of a Prison Chaplain explains the 'lifeline' provided by the work of the prison chaplaincy. Written by a Quaker chaplain (but equally compelling for all faith groups), it shows how important to prisoners contact can be  -  how chaplains fit into the ever-pressing world of prison regimes. Among the diverse topics covered are Christmas in prison, death in prison (or of a loved one on the outside) and learning in prison  -  as well as restorative justice (which is in line with the teachings of various faiths: as old as religion itself). As the author writes, prisoners are 'Children of God' no matter what their crime, how petty, serious or heinous. How to deal with those whose crimes are so distressing as to challenge this idea is also a feature of the book. It contains a chapter on life-sentence prisoners, those with only a distant and in some cases forlorn hope of release as well as telling the stories of individual prisoners, their time in prison and the 'calming' role of the chaplain when contrasted with the security pre-occupations and rule dominated routines of governors and prison officers. With a Foreword by Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust, General Secretary of Prison Reform International and one of the UK's leading commentators on penal matters.Trade Review'Engaging, thought-provoking - contributes to our understanding of the hidden, often neglected world of prison': Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust.Table of ContentsAbout the Author; The Author of the Foreword; Foreword; Preface; 1. Portrait of a Prison; 2.Faith in Prison; 3.Seeking 'A Gathered Stillness'; 4. A Confession; 5. Learning in Prison; 6. Death in Prison; 7. Christmas in Prison; 8. Stories from Prison; 9. Lifers; 10. Restorative Justice; 11. Positive Justice; 12. Conclusion: Children of God; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisCries for Help opens a window on the closed world of Holloway, other women's prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s. This was an era when personal style and charismatic leadership was the order of the day for governors and prison officers, before ideas of 'new management', when problems were solved using personal initiatives. It catalogues the daily lives of women prisoners, their anxieties, fears and preoccupations. The book looks at a lost segment of the population, hundreds of women who were hidden from view, lacking a voice, part of a system for men that hardly knew what to do with them. It contains stories about murderers and other serious offenders and looks at their personal correspondence, including that of moors murderer Myra Hindley.Trade Review'I hope that [the prison] authorities in particular will read and reflect on her brutally honest, human and very relevant book': Lord David Ramsbotham

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Book SynopsisFifty years after the Moors Murders and 15 years since Myra Hindley died in prison, after one of the longest sentences served by a woman, The Monstering of Myra Hindley raises some delicate and searching questions.They include: "Why was Hindley treated differently?", "Why do we need to create demons?" and "What impact does this have on our whole notion of crime, punishment and justice?" Set against the political backlash of one of the most noto-rious cases in English criminal history, this is a perceptive, first-hand portrayal of the most talked-about and maligned of women. The Monstering of Myra Hindley is written by one of the closest people to her, Nina Wilde. Wilde not only sets the record straight on certain matters, she also provides new insights about one of the most infamous women in Britain. It contains until now private information, 'home-truths' and describes a journey charting a special relationship. Everyone, the author included, recognises the plight of the victims but this should not be allowed to mask other wrongs that, with hindsight, become increasingly apparent in Hindley's case.Trade Review'I think she became a national scapegoat for that part of the social mind that is cruel and has contempt for vulnerability'-- Dr Gwen Adshead; 'The book has two main arguments. Hindley was treated as she was first because she was a woman and consequently what she did was worse because she was a woman. Second the unfairness she experienced was because the press would not leave her alone and continually brought up the story and the evil nature of her character... I think Wilde is right on both counts... the book is written well and makes the above arguments well. It thus serves as a reminder that tariff decisions on life imprisonment should be decided upon by the judiciary and that they should be carried out without political bias or influence.'-- Prison Service Journal.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Timeline; 1.Cookham Wood; 2.The Outsider; 3.The Nature of Myra's Injustice; 4.Public and Political Involvement; 5.Reputation, Retreat and Remorse; 6.The Media and the Press; 7.Myra As Public Property; 8.Constant Threat and Observation; 9.Hypnosis and Other Distractions; 10.I'd Like to Help You, But...; The Prisoner; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners’ families and the impact of imprisonment on them. Under-researched and under-theorised in the realm of scholarship on imprisonment, this handbook encompasses a broad range of original, interdisciplinary and cross-national research. This volume includes the experiences of those from countries often unrepresented in the prisoner’s families’ literature such as Russia, Australia, Israel and Canada. This broad coverage allows readers to consider how prisoners’ families are affected by imprisonment in countries embracing very different penal philosophies; ranging from the hyper-incarceration being experienced in the USA to the less punitive, more welfare-orientated practices under Scandinavian ‘exceptionalism’. Chapters are contributed by scholars from numerous and diverse disciplines ranging from law, nursing, criminology, psychology, human geography, and education studies. Furthermore, contributions span various methodological and epistemological approaches with important contributions from NGOs working in this area at a national and supranational level. The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family makes a significant contribution to knowledge about who prisoners’ families are and what this status means in practice. It also recognises the autonomy and value of prisoners’ families as a research subject in their own right.Table of Contents1. Introduction Marie A. Hutton and Dominique Moran Section One Contemporary Issues: Understanding Prisoners’ Families 2. Prisoners’ Families Research : Developments, Debates and Directions Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson, Karen Souza and Friedrich Lösel 3. Inmate Social Ties, Recidivism, and Continuing Questions About Prison Visitation Joshua C. Cochran 4. Developments and Next Steps in Theorizing the Secondary Prisonization of Families Megan Comfort 5. Who are Prisoners’ Family Members?: Towards an Holistic and Intersectional Framework Johnna Christian 6. A holistic approach to prisoners’ families – from arrest to release Rachel Condry and Peter Scharff Smith 7. Opportunities and challenges for work on behalf of families affected by imprisonment; the experience of Families Outside Nancy Loucks Section Two Different perspectives: Widening the lens 8. Experiences of Male Partners of Women Prisoners in Israel Tomer Einat 9. The Traumatic Bereavement of Children Experiencing the Loss of a Loved One to Death Row Sandra Joy, Elizabeth Beck and Ashley Hurley 10. Relatives of Registered Sex Offenders: Considering the Costs of Providing Family Support David Patrick Connor 11. Partners of Incarcerated Men: Questioning Caring Stereotypes Karen Souza, Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson and Friedrich Lösel Section Three Engaging with the prison 12. A Comparison of the position of Grandmother Carers for children with parents in prison in the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Romania and Uganda Ben Raikes, Romeo Asiminei, Alexandra Cuza, Karene Nathaniel-Decaires, Eric Ochen, George Pascaru and Gloria Seruwagi 13. Families’ experiences in a prison visitors’ centre Rebecca Foster 14. Prison Visitation as Accessible Engagement: Encounters, Bystanders, Performance and Inattention Dominique Moran and Tom Disney 15. Acorn House Revisited: ‘Think Family, Up and Down and Side to Side’ Ben Raikes and Kelly Lockwood Section Four Recognising the rights of Prisoners’ Families 16. The Rights of Children with an Imprisoned Parent in the Republic of Ireland Aisling Parkes and Fiona Donson 17. Hearing Children’s Voices in Studies of Familial Incarceration: Experiences from a Canadian Study Else Marie Knudsen 18. The Rights of Children of Imprisoned Parents Helen Codd 19. A Labour of Love: The Experiences of Parents of Prisoners and their role as Human Rights Protectors Marie A. Hutton Section Five Beyond Imprisonment 20. Reflecting on the Value(s) of Family Interventions for People subject to Punishment in the Community Becky Clarke, Rachel Kinsella and Craig Fletcher 21. Mothering under Community Criminal Justice Supervision in the United States D.R. Gina Sissoko and Lorie Goshin 22. Intergeneration Transmission of Criminal Behaviour Sytske Besemer and Laura Bui 23. Intergenerational Social Exclusion in prisoners’ families Kirsten Besemer and Susan Dennison 24. School Experiences of Children of Prisoners: Strengthening Support in Schools in England and Wales Julia Morgan and Caroline Leeson

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Book SynopsisAddressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending. It offers a critical overview of current criminal justice policies and close to 100 years of research on how to best improve these policies through theoretically-grounded and methodologically-rigorous research. Focusing on proactive prevention-oriented strategies, this book revisits popular ideas about sexual offending through an evidence-based lens, addressing ideological and populist discourse that has led to ineffective and reactive policies. It advocates for a clearly defined concept of the phenomenon of sexual offending to underpin research and treatment. Uniquely, authors consider sexual offending from the viewpoint of criminal justice research and practitioners, incorporating the sociohistorical construction of sexual offending as a social problem, developmental life course research, and the impact of social policies. This book is a call for more proactive research on the origins and the development of sexual offending over the life course.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sexual offending: an elusive phenomenon in criminology's blind spot.- 2. The postwar sociolegal (de-) constructoin of sexual offending.- 3. Myths, false claims and erroneous conclusions about "sex offenders".- 4. The "sex offender" under the microscope: Are they different?.- 5. Why sexual offending?.- 6. The stepping stones to sexual offending.- 7. The Scarlet letter in the digital age: the impact of public sex offender registries.- 8. Correctional moneyball? Lessons learned from correctional risk management.- 9. The slippery slope of rehabilitation: science, common sense or social justice?.- 10. Conclusion: toward a reasonable, scientifically grounded, developmental perspective.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Prison Workers’ Competencies.- 3. Self-legitimacy and Its Antecedents.- 4. Methodology.- 5. Results.- 6. Discussion and Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch liefert eine Zwischenbilanz über die Situation des Strafvollzugs. Ziel des Behandlungsvollzugs ist die Befähigung der Gefangenen zu einem straffreien Leben. Die Autoren dieses Sammelbandes beleuchten deshalb unter anderem die Fragen: Wie leistungsfähig ist der Behandlungsvollzug? Welche Sicherheitsrisiken müssen bewältigt werden? Wie gestaltet sich die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Akteuren der stationären und ambulanten Resozialisierung? Und welche weiteren Reformen sind mittel- und langfristig zu realisieren?Table of ContentsAktuelle Entwicklung des Strafvollzugs in Deutschland. -Wirkungsorientierte Vollzugsgestaltung.-Spezifische Zielgruppen.-Strategische Steuerung.-Entwicklung des Systems der stationären und ambulanten Resozialisierung.-

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Book SynopsisSystematisch aufgebaut spannt der Autor dieses Lehrbuches den Bogen von der historischen Entwicklung über die Grundlagen des Strafvollzugs bis hin zum Vollzugssystem, dem Behandlungsprozess und den Sicherheitsaspekten. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet das Vollzugsverfahrensrecht. Unter Hinzuziehung von neuerer Rechtsprechung und Fallbeispielen werden wesentliche Problembereiche exemplarisch erläutert. Jura-Studenten und alle mit Fragen des Strafvollzugs Befasste finden wertvolle Antworten und hilfreiche Unterstützung. Autor und Verlag haben viel Wert gelegt auf den lernspezifischen Zuschnitt. In die 8. Auflage eingearbeitet wurden alle maßgebenden Gesetzesänderungen sowie die Neuregelungen zum Strafvollzug auf Länderebene. Berücksichtigt ist die jüngste Rechtsprechung der Obergerichte, insbesondere des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, zu Fragen des Freiheitsentzugs.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Grundlagen des Strafvollzugs.- Historische Entwicklung.- Vollzugsaufgaben und Gestaltungsprinzipien.- Personelle Rahmenbedingungen.- Der Vollzugsablauf als Interaktionsprozess.- Besonderheiten des Frauenstrafvollzugs.- Sicherheit und Ordnung.- Vollzugsverfahrensrecht.- Besondere Vollzugsformen.- Datenschutz.

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