Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality - Hardcover

Bottomley, A. Keith; Liebling, Alison; Clare, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803975481 ISBN 13: 9780803975484

Verlag: Sage Publications UK, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

This book makes public, for the first time, a full account of the development of the privatization of prisons, centred on the only full-scale empirical study yet to have been undertaken in Britain.

After providing an up-to-date overview of the development of private sector involvement in penal practice in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe and Australia, the authors go on to describe the first two years in the life of Wolds Remand Prison - the first private prison in Britain.

They look at the daily life for remand prisoners, assess the duties and morale of staff and compare the workings of Wolds to a new local prison in the public sector. The authors conclude by discussing some of the practical and theoretica

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor Adrian James is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803975481
• ISBN 13: 9780803975484
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
• Herausgeber: James Adrian L.
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