Prison Riots In Britain And The Usa 2nd Ed

Author : R. Adams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349235873
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Riots in Britain and the USA, 2nd ed written by R. Adams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is among the handful of prison books - they include George Jackson's Soledad Brother and BB Michael Ignatieff's A Just Measure of Pain - which moves and informs. The sociology of prison riots,MM the causes of outbreak and the nature of the reactions, are subjects which have been largely ignored and need to be understood by those who either study criminal justice or work in the system.' - His Honour Judge Stephen Tumin This challenging book is essential reading for everyone with an interest in penal policy and practice. It uses extensive documentary evidence to demonstrate that prison riots in Britain and the US have shifted from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenged the dominant penal philosophy of rehabilitation. The book illustrates the violent nature both of many prison riots and of responses to them by the authorities. It concludes that the challenge to all involved in debates about penal policy and practice is to project a future for prisons which goes beyond the patterns of confrontation which have been so much a feature of prison riots in the past.

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312083823
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Riots in Britain and the USA written by Robert Adams and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This compelling and unique book amasses a wealth of documentary and research evidence to explode popular myths about the absence of significant prison riots until the 1960s. It demonstrates that prison riots are a central feature of penal history, from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenged the dominant penal philosophy of rehabilitation." "The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the discrediting of the rehabilitative philosophy of imprisonment and a shift in the nature of challenges to the authorities by prisoners, from an almost exclusive focus on macho confrontations by the 'heavy end' of long-sentence prisoners to riots by diverse categories of prisoners, including women, mentally-ill and remand or trial prisoners." "Drawing on incidents where in extreme cases the prisoners have blow-torched, sodomised and raped their guards and each other, and the authorities have used the military, tanks, dynamite, and machine-guns to quell riots, the book illustrates the violent nature of prison riots and of responses to them by the authorities. It concludes that the challenge to all involved in debates about penal policy and practice is to project a future for prisons, beyond the patterns of violent confrontations which have been so much a feature of prison riots in the past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : A. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137306173
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inter-war Penal Policy and Crime in England written by A. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the 1932 prison riot in Dartmoor Convict Prison. One of the most notorious and destructive in English prison history, it received unprecedented public and media attention. This book examines the causes, events and consequences to shed new light on prison cultures and violence as well as penal policy and public attitudes.

Author : Peter Joyce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000591271
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice written by Peter Joyce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Starting with an overview of the main theories of the causes of crime, this book explores and discusses the operation of the main criminal justice agencies including the police, probation and prison services and the legal and youth justice systems. The fourth edition has been revised, updated, expanded and features a new expert co-author. This book offers a lively and critical discussion of some of the main themes in criminal justice, from policy-making and crime control, to diversity and discrimination, to the global dimensions of criminal justice, including organised crime and the role performed by transnational policing organisations to combat it. Key updates to this new edition include: increased discussion of the measurement, prevention and detection of crime; a revised chapter on the police which discusses the principle of policing by consent, police methods, power and governance, and the abuse of power; further discussion of pressing contemporary issues in criminal justice, such as privatisation, multi-agency working, community-based criminal justice policy and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the delivery of criminal justice policy; a revised chapter that deals in detail with new and emerging forms of criminality and the response of the UK and global criminal justice system to these developments. This accessible text is essential reading for students taking introductory courses in criminology and criminal justice. A wide range of useful features include review questions, lists of further reading, timelines of key events and a glossary of key terms.

Author : Marcus Harmes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030360598
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture written by Marcus Harmes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness. The chapters examine the real and imagined spaces of the prison and, perhaps more importantly, dwell in the uncertain space between them. The modern fixation with ‘seeing inside’ prison from the outside has prompted a proliferation of media visions of incarceration, from high-minded and worthy to voyeuristic and unrealistic. In this handbook, the editors bring together a huge breadth of disparate issues including women in prison, the view from ‘inside’, prisons as a source of entertainment, the real worlds of prison, and issues of race and gender. The handbook will inform students and lecturers of media, film, popular culture, gender, and cultural studies, as well as scholars of criminology and justice.

Author : Sandra L. Resodihardjo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351947508
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Change in the British and Dutch Prison Services written by Sandra L. Resodihardjo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when incidents result in a policy sector losing its legitimacy? When a malfunctioning policy sector receives so much negative public attention that it has to fight for its survival? This study describes three such cases in detail within the British and Dutch Prison Services, examining the incidents, the negative response of the media and Members of Parliament to these incidents, and the way in which policy-makers tried to deal with the crises. This book establishes under which conditions such crises led to reform.

Author : Graham J. Towl
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470777494
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychology in Prisons written by Graham J. Towl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by the Head of Psychology for Her Majesty's Prison Serviceand the National Probation Service, this book gives an account ofthe work of psychologists in Her Majesty's prisons. Edited by the Head of Psychology for Her Majesty's Prison andProbation Services. Looks at the work of psychologists in prisons. Contributors look at the background, current practice andlikely future directions for each topic.

Author : Linda Mulcahy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429558686
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Courthouse written by Linda Mulcahy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales. The book explores the extent to which egalitarian ideals and the pursuit of new social and economic rights altered existing hierarchies and expectations about how people should interact with each other in the courthouse. Drawing on extensive public archives and private archives kept by the Ministry of Justice, but also using case studies from other jurisdictions, the book details how civil servants, judges, lawyers, architects, engineers and security experts have talked about courthouses and the people that populate them. In doing so, it uncovers a changing history of ideas about how the competing goals of transparency, majesty, participation, security, fairness and authority have been achieved, and the extent to which aspirations towards equality and participation have been realised in physical form. As this book demonstrates, the power of architecture to frame attitudes and expectations of the justice system is much more than an aesthetic or theoretical nicety. Legal subjects live in a world in which the configuration of space, the cues provided about behaviour by the built form and the way in which justice is symbolised play a crucial, but largely unacknowledged, role in creating meaning and constituting legal identities and rights to participate in the civic sphere. Key to understanding the modern-day courthouse, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in all fields of law, architecture, sociology, political science, psychology and criminology.

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350310840
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Health and Social Care written by Robert Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for students and practitioners in health and social care taking foundation degrees or further professional qualifications, this textbook offers a wealth of material on contexts, knowledge bases, skills and practices, as well as dealing with work carried out by those involved in treatment, therapy, advocacy and management. Written in very accessible style, this very comprehensive book is set to become a core text for all Foundation Degree students within the health and social care field, and a very valuable resource for tutors and practitioners in the field.

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137050535
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empowerment, Participation and Social Work written by Robert Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, completely revised and updated, this book continues to offer in-depth coverage spanning both conceptual debates about empowerment and a range of practice issues. The text provides social workers with a clear framework for critical and empowering practice with service users and carers. The author offers an account of the development of empowerment and participation in practice, considering all dimensions, from work with individuals and groupwork, through to organisational, community and political aspects. The clarity and accessibility, as well as new examples reflecting varied global contexts and material on empowering children and adults, make it an essential resource at all levels of study. New to this Edition: - Strong emphasis on the needs of service users and a clear focus on how social workers may encourage service user and carer prticipation - Internationally diverse case studies and practice examples, reflecting global concerns as well as the changing service and practice terrains in the UK - New and extended material on empowering children and adults