Understanding Prison Staff

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ISBN: 9781843922742 | 1843922746
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Copyright: 2/24/2011

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This book provides insight into the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, draws attention to the variety, value and complexity of work within prisons.The book is divided into five main sections, covering prisons and staff issues, prison officers, the work of managers in prisons, the work of non-uniformed staff who work in prisons, and developing human resources in prisons.

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Introduction
Prisons and Staff Issues
Personal reflections on prison staff
Prison staff: an international perspective
The experiences of black and minority ethnic prison staff
Prison officers and gender
Prison staff in the public and private sector
Prison Officers
Industrial relations in prisons
Understanding prison officers: culture, cohesion and conflict
Staff and order in prisons
Creating ghosts in the penal machine: prison officer occupational morality and the techniques of denial
'An inconvenient criminological truth': pain, punishment and prison officers
Prison Managers
Prison governors: new public managers?
Change management in prisons
Resisting the scourge of managerialism: on the uses of discretion in late-modern prisons
The role of middle and first-line managers
Prison Staff
The changing face of probation in prisons
Teachers and instructors in prisons
Psychologists in prisons
The prison drug worker
Health professionals in prisons
Developing the Human Resources of Prisons
Recruitment and assessment of prison staff
Training and developing prison staff
The experience of prison officer training
Conclusion
Concluding comments on the social world of prison staff
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