ABSTRACT
In the last two chapters we examined the relationships between the power-holders identified in Chapter 1 and the ends and means discourses described in Chapter 2 and explored a number of different areas of decision-making which are of central importance to the Scottish Prison Services (SPS), in particular initial classification and transfers between establishments, which together structure the prisoner’s career. We attempted to demonstrate that the SPS has been the site of a power struggle between groups of actors acting as the bearers of different ends and means discourses and that decisionmaking can be understood in terms of the interplay between discourse and power.
