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.

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)