The Prison Officer

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ISBN: 9781843922704 | 1843922703
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/18/2011

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This is a thoroughly updated edition of The Prison Officer published in 2001. The aim of this book is to provide an accessible and really interesting guide to the world and work of the Prison Officer, showing the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to every operation carried out by officers. So little has been written on prison officers (in comparison to prisoners) and this book addresses the gap. This book will be of relevant to anyone with an interest in the work of a prison officer and essential for any established and aspiring officers.

List of figures and tables	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Preface to the second edition	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction: prison officers at their best	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
From the modern to the late-modern officer	p. 3
The rationale for the book	p. 5
Introducing appreciative inquiry	p. 6
Notes	p. 12
Who is the prison officer?	p. 14
How many prison officers are there?	p. 15
Female prison officers	p. 16
Ethnic origin of prison officers	p. 18
Age of prison officers	p. 19
Recruitment turnover rates and length of service of prison officers	p. 20
Employment conditions: pay and hours	p. 22
Staffing levels and prisoner: officer ratios	p. 29
Prison officer views	p. 32
Conclusion	p. 39
Notes	p. 40
Understanding prison officers and their role	p. 42
A typical day for a prison officer	p. 46
Role model prison officers	p. 48
Role model officers at Whitemoor prison	p. 51
Wing differences and adjudications	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 60
Notes	p. 61
The complexities of the role	p. 63
Prison officers: stress and assault	p. 63
Assaults	p. 67
The role of female staff in male prisons	p. 72
Exploring diversity: role differences in England and abroad	p. 76
The role of personal officers	p. 77
Conclusion: the role of the modern prison officer	p. 78
Notes	p. 81
Staff-prisoner relationships: the heart of prison work	p. 83
Striving for 'right relationships'	p. 87
Officer and prisoner views of each other	p. 95
The significance of staff-prisoner relationships What did prisoners consider important in relationships with officers?	p. 104
The importance of fairness	p. 105
The granting and receiving of respect	p. 108
Boundaries, relationships and corruption	p. 111
Limits to relationships	p. 114
The overuse of power	p. 115
Conclusion	p. 119
Notes	p. 119
The centrality of discretion in the work of prison officers	p. 121
Prison officers and the 'defects of total power'	p. 126
Gresham Sykes and the late-modern prison officer	p. 128
The 'un-exercise' of power	p. 131
The power base of prison officers	p. 134
Police discretion	p. 136
Prison officers and prison rules	p. 137
Prison officers and the use of discretion	p. 140
Prison work as peacemaking	p. 146
Daily penal practices and the trained application of reason	p. 147
Notes	p. 180
prison officer culture and unionisation	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
Studies of police culture	p. 155
Culture and the effects of prison work	p. 158
Prison officer culture	p. 160
The value of prison work	p. 165
prison officer unionisation	p. 169
The Origins of the Prison Officers' Association	p. 171
The Role of the Modern Prison Officer'	p. 174
Recent developments	p. 176
Conclusions	p. 181
Notes	p. 183
The prison officer in a modern bureaucracy	p. 185
Introduction	p. 185
The structure of the Prison Service in 2010	p. 186
Management change in the Prison Service	p. 189
The move to modernisation and Managerialism	p. 190
The Lygo Report and Next Steps	p. 193
Officers' thinking about management	p. 196
Thinking theoretically about managerialism	p. 199
What are the implications of managerialism for the prison officer?	p. 199
Notes	p. 202
Conclusions	p. 204
Conclusion: the prison officer in the twenty-first century	p. 206
Notes	p. 209
Appendix: The Prison Staff Quality of Life Survey	p. 210
References	p. 218
Index	p. 230
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