Assessment of the impact of changes introduced in November 1994 reducing by 40% the number of prisoners receiving home leave or temporary release. Argues this represents a major step backwards in penal policy.
This pamphlet looks at several aspects of the Scottish Prison Service in the 1970s using the Special Unit in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow, as a central focus.
Contents:- 1. Introduction 2. Economic libralism and Conservative criminology 3. Private attitudes and public policy: control culture or the law and order society 4. The police as social workers: community and multi-agency policing 5. The failure…
Contents:- 1. Disability and discrimination through the ages to the present day 2. The forgotten people (The history of Derenth Park Hospital) 3. Societies rejects 4. Mental health 5. Problem behaviour 6. Conclusion
Contents: Preface 1. Long-term imprisonment in Scotland: the case of Peterhead 2. Inside the machine 3. The violent institution 4. Discipline, punishment and the maintainance of order 5. Discipline, freedom and outside contact 6. Media construction…
This study of English prisons from 1750 to their nationalization in 1877 is based on a detailed examination of the interplay between policy, administration and staffing. These issues are explored by drawing on a wide range of national and local…
"A Just Measure of Pain" returns to the moment in eighteenth century England when the modern penitentary and its ambitious legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows came to be replaced by the prison and the idea that the…