Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) - Softcover

Wortley, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521009405 ISBN 13: 9780521009409

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

This book examines the control of prison disorder through the application of situational crime prevention principles. It presents a new model of situational prevention with applications beyond institutions to community settings, and examines problem behaviours, providing comprehensive reviews of prison control literature not depending upon a situational crime prevention interest.

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"...Wortley's pragmatic approach makes this a particularly interesting book. His application of the situational crime prevention strategy to concrete, everyday, real prison management dilemmas makes this a different approach in its own right. Wortley deftly moves from theory to application, all within the framework of 'opportunity reduction'". Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime prevention in community settings, Richard Wortley argues that the same principles can be used to help reduce the levels of assault, rape, self-harm, drug use, escape and collective violence in our prison systems. This pioneering new study proposes a two-stage model of situational prevention that moves beyond traditional opportunity-reduction: it attempts to reconcile the contradictory urges to control prison disorder by 'tightening-up' and hardening the prison environment on the one hand, and 'loosening-off' and normalising it on the other. Combining a comprehensive synthesis and evaluation of existing research with original investigation and ground-breaking conclusions, Situational Prison Control will be of great interest to academics and practitioners both in the areas of correction and crime prevention more generally.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521009405
• ISBN 13: 9780521009409
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268