Understanding Prisons: Key Issues in Policy and Practice
Dec 2005 · McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
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224
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“Few people can talk about prisons with the authority and experience thatAndrew Coyle brings to his subject. A former prison governor, an academicauthor, an international activist and a practical reformer, Professor Coyleknows prisons inside and out, home and abroad, past and present. InUnderstanding Prisons he uses his impressive expertise to guide researchersthrough the changing world of the English prison. The result is an accessible,up-to-date, and highly informative book that will be welcomed by studentsand practitioners alike.”
David Garland, NYU, author of The Culture of Control
David Garland, NYU, author of The Culture of Control
“Andrew Coyle has drawn on his lifelong experience of governing prisons inScotland and England and, as the former Director of the International Centrefor Prison Studies, Kings College, London, studying prisons worldwide. Hehas written a comprehensive account of the use of imprisonment and thecharacter of prisons. He persuasively argues that our continued, extensiveuse of imprisonment cannot simply be explained or justified by the incidenceof crime and could otherwise. His book merits close attention.”
Rod Morgan, Chairman, Youth Justice Board
- Describes how prisons developed into their present form
- Looks at who is sent to prison and what happens to them while they are there
- Explains how the prison system and staff in England and Wales are organised
- Examines how order and control is maintained and how high security prisons operate
- Looks at prisoners’ families and the wider community
- Offers a future vision of the prison system
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