ABSTRACT
Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and concepts into the established prisons and penal lexicon.
At the same time courses on prisons and penology remain important components of criminology and criminal justice degree courses. This will be the essential source of reference for the increasing number of people studying in, working in prisons and working with prisoners.
This Dictionary is part a new series of dictionaries covering key aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system and designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners:
- approximately 300 entries (of between 500 and 1500 words) on key terms and concepts arranged alphabetically designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners
- entries include summary definition, main text and key texts and sources takes full account of emerging occupational and Skills for Justice criteria
- edited by a leading academic and practitioner in the prisons and penology field entries contributed by leading academic and practitioners in prisons and penology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |20 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Abolitionism
entry |2 pages
Accountability
entry |2 pages
Activities
entry |2 pages
Adjudications
entry |3 pages
Adjusting to Release
entry |2 pages
Ageing Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Alcohol
entry |4 pages
Alternatives to Imprisonment
entry |2 pages
Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
entry |3 pages
Architecture
entry |2 pages
Argot (Prison)
entry |3 pages
Assaults
entry |2 pages
Audit
letter |11 pages
B
entry |3 pages
Barlinnie
entry |2 pages
Bifurcation
entry |4 pages
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Boot Camps
entry |2 pages
Borstals
entry |2 pages
Bullying
entry |1 pages
The Butler Trust
letter |22 pages
C
entry |3 pages
Carceral Society
entry |2 pages
Categorization and Allocation
entry |2 pages
Category A Prisoners
entry |3 pages
Celebrity Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA)
entry |2 pages
Chaplaincy
entry |2 pages
Child Protection
entry |3 pages
Children In Custody
entry |2 pages
Citizenship
entry |2 pages
Civil Renewal
entry |4 pages
Close Supervision Centres
entry |2 pages
Clothing
entry |2 pages
Communication
entry |2 pages
Coping
entry |2 pages
Cost of Prisons
entry |2 pages
Custody Plus and Custody Minus
letter |20 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD)
entry |3 pages
Dangerousness
entry |3 pages
Death Penalty
entry |3 pages
Deaths In Custody
entry |2 pages
Decency
entry |3 pages
Deprivations/‘Pains of Imprisonment'
entry |3 pages
Desistance
entry |2 pages
Deterrence
entry |2 pages
Disability
entry |2 pages
Discipline
entry |2 pages
Discretion
entry |4 pages
Drugs
letter |14 pages
E
entry |3 pages
Early-Release Schemes
entry |2 pages
Economy
entry |3 pages
Education and Training
entry |4 pages
Effects of Imprisonment
entry |3 pages
Electronic Monitoring
entry |2 pages
Employment and Industries
entry |2 pages
Escapes and Absconds
entry |2 pages
European Committee For The Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (ECPT)
letter |13 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Fairness
entry |1 pages
Faith Communities
entry |4 pages
Families of Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Farms and Gardens
entry |2 pages
First-Night Centres
entry |2 pages
Food And Diet
entry |2 pages
Foreign National Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Fresh Start
entry |2 pages
Friendship
entry |2 pages
Fry, Elizabeth
letter |6 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Girls In Prison
entry |4 pages
Governors
entry |2 pages
Grievances
letter |21 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Healthcare
entry |2 pages
High-Reliability Organizations (HROs)
entry |2 pages
High-Security Prisons
entry |2 pages
Hiv/Aids
entry |3 pages
Hm Inspectorate of Prisons
entry |3 pages
Hm Prison Service
entry |3 pages
Homelessness
entry |2 pages
Home Office
entry |2 pages
Homicide In Prison
entry |3 pages
Homosexuality In Prison
entry |2 pages
Howard, John
entry |2 pages
Howard League For Penal Reform
entry |3 pages
Human Rights
letter |17 pages
I
entry |2 pages
Identity and Self
entry |2 pages
Immigration Detention
entry |2 pages
Importation Model
entry |2 pages
Incapacitation
entry |3 pages
In-Cell Television
entry |3 pages
Incentives And Earned Privileges (IEP)
entry |3 pages
Independent Monitoring Boards
entry |3 pages
Industrial Relations
entry |3 pages
Inmate Code
entry |2 pages
In-Reach Teams
entry |2 pages
Intermittent Custody
letter |1 pages
J
entry |1 pages
Just Deserts
letter |2 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Performance Targets (KPTs)
entry |1 pages
Koestler Awards
letter |11 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Legal Services
entry |3 pages
Legitimacy
entry |2 pages
Less Eligibility
entry |2 pages
Libraries
entry |3 pages
Life-Sentence Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Listener Schemes
entry |2 pages
Local Prisons
entry |2 pages
Long-Term Prisoners
letter |16 pages
M
entry |2 pages
Mandatory Drug Testing
entry |2 pages
Market Testing
entry |3 pages
Masculinity
entry |2 pages
Measuring The Quality of Prison Life (Mqpl)
entry |2 pages
Mental Health
entry |2 pages
Ministry Of Justice
entry |2 pages
Miscarriages of Justice
entry |3 pages
Morality
entry |2 pages
Mother and Baby Units (MBUs)
entry |2 pages
Mubarek Inquiry
entry |2 pages
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (Mappas)
letter |10 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Nacro
entry |3 pages
The National Offender Management Service (Noms)
entry |3 pages
New Generation Prisons (Ngps)
entry |2 pages
New Public Management (NPM)
entry |4 pages
New Punitiveness
entry |1 pages
‘Nothing Works'
letter |11 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Offender Assessment System (OASys)
entry |3 pages
Offending Behaviour Programmes
entry |3 pages
Official Reports
entry |2 pages
Open Prisons
entry |4 pages
Order And Control
entry |2 pages
Overcrowding
letter |43 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Panopticon
entry |2 pages
Paramilitary Prisoners
entry |3 pages
Parole
entry |3 pages
Penal Crisis
entry |2 pages
Performance Management
entry |2 pages
Physical Education (PE)
entry |3 pages
Political Prisoners
entry |3 pages
Politics of Imprisonment
entry |2 pages
Power
entry |2 pages
Prison Act
entry |2 pages
Prisonization
entry |3 pages
Prison Officers
entry |2 pages
Prison Population
entry |2 pages
Prison Reform Trust
entry |2 pages
Prison Rules
entry |3 pages
Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
entry |3 pages
Prisons In Film
entry |3 pages
Prisons In News
entry |3 pages
Prisons on Television
entry |2 pages
‘Prison Works'
entry |4 pages
Privatization
entry |3 pages
Probation Service
entry |1 pages
Property
entry |3 pages
Psychology in Prisons
entry |2 pages
Public Perceptions
letter |20 pages
R
entry |2 pages
Race Relations
entry |2 pages
Recall
entry |3 pages
Reception and Induction
entry |3 pages
Rehabilitation
entry |3 pages
Religion and Faith
entry |2 pages
Remand
entry |2 pages
Reoffending
entry |3 pages
Research in Prisons
entry |2 pages
Responsibility
entry |3 pages
Restorative Justice (Rj)
entry |3 pages
Riots (Prison)
entry |2 pages
Risk
letter |29 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Sanitation
entry |2 pages
Searching
entry |2 pages
Secure Training Centres
entry |1 pages
Security
entry |4 pages
Segregation
entry |2 pages
Self-Harm
entry |2 pages
Sentence Planning
entry |3 pages
Sentencing Policy
entry |3 pages
Separate And Silent Systems
entry |2 pages
Sex Offenders
entry |1 pages
Short-Term Prisoners
entry |2 pages
Solidarity
entry |1 pages
Special Security Units
entry |3 pages
Staff (Prison)
entry |3 pages
Stanford Prison Experiment
entry |3 pages
Structure/Agency (‘Resistance')
entry |2 pages
Subcultures
entry |2 pages
Suicide in Prison
entry |3 pages
Supermax Prisons
letter |15 pages
T
entry |3 pages
Temporary Release
entry |3 pages
Therapeutic Communities
entry |4 pages
Time
entry |2 pages
Total Institutions
entry |2 pages
Training Prisons
entry |2 pages
Transfers
entry |3 pages
Transportation
entry |3 pages
Typologies Of Prisoners
letter |2 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Use of Force (Control And Restraint)
letter |11 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Victorian Prisons
entry |3 pages
Violence
entry |2 pages
Violence Reduction
entry |2 pages
Visits and Visiting Orders
entry |3 pages
Voluntary Sector
entry |2 pages
Voting Rights
entry |2 pages
Vulnerable Prisoners' Units (Vpus)
letter |12 pages
W
entry |2 pages
‘War On Terror'
entry |2 pages
Welfarism
entry |4 pages
Women In Prison
entry |3 pages
Woolf Report
entry |4 pages
World Prison Populations
letter |5 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Young Men In Prison
entry |3 pages
Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
entry |2 pages
Youth Justice Board (YJB)