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  • Managing Prisons

    Managerialism, Austerity and Moral Blindness

    by Jamie Bennett ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book critiques the practices of managerialism and their effects on those who live and work in prisons. It draws upon ethnographic research conducted in English prisons over a 15 year period, written by a former prison governor. Since the last years of the 20th century, public services in England have increasingly adopted managerial approaches with an architecture of target setting, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Prisoners on Prison Films

    by Jamie Bennett, Victoria Knight ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this affects people in prison. The book explains the ways in which film acts as a power resource, presenting an ideological vision of ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Penal System

    An Introduction

    by Mick Cavadino, James Dignan, George Mair, Jamie Bennett ...
    Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice.Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition:Outlines contemporary policy debates on sentencing, staffing, youth ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • The Working Lives of Prison Managers

    Global Change, Local Culture and Individual Agency in the Late Modern Prison

    by Jamie Bennett ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England. It explores how globalised changes, in particular managerialism, have intersected with local occupational cultures, positioning managers as micro-agents in the relationship between the global and local that characterises late modernity.The Working Lives of Prison Managers addresses key aspects of prison management, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Handbook on Prisons

    Edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Jamie Bennett ...
    The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first edition and reveals the range and depth of prison scholarship around the world.The Handbook contains ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Understanding Prison Staff

    Edited by Jamie Bennett, Ben Crewe, Azrini Wahidin ...
    The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise. Yet our knowledge of the inner life of the prison remains limited. This book aims to redress this research gap by providing insight into various aspects of the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, will seek to draw attention to the variety, value and complexity ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment

    Edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Jamie Bennett ...
    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 ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Prisoner

    Edited by Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett ...
    Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned.The Prisoner aims to redress this by foregrounding prisoners ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    There's A Deer At The Door And A Cow In The Mudroom; Learning to Live while Living with Lyme

    Learning to Live while Living with Lyme

    by Jamie Bennett ...
    Narrated by Sky Allie ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    What if you lost your health? How far would you go to get it back?Health is a fundamental human right that we all take for granted and abuse daily.In this book author Jamie Bennett takes you on a walk through memory lane. Spanning over a decade and a half, this is a story about the seemingly-impossible steps one must go through to get back what was rightfully theirs. It’s a journey through chronic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Feminist Influences on Policy and Practice - A Reader

    Edited by Jalna Hanmer, Catherine Itzin ...
    While men's violence to women is an everyday culturally supported activity, this reader demonstrates: that men's violence can be curtailed and that women and children can be assisted effectively; that state policies and provision can be improved; and that women can actively participate in the resolution of their difficulties. Bringing together new work and key papers Home Truths About Domestic ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Youth Justice and Social Work

    by Jane Pickford, Paul Dugmore ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    It is vital for social work students and practitioners to understand the complexities of the youth justice system. This fully revised second edition analyses and puts into context several pieces of new legislation such as the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, the Youth Rehabilitation Order 2009 and the new Youth Conditional Caution. Carefully selected case studies and summaries of ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The New Politics of Crime and Punishment

    Edited by Roger Matthews, Jock Young ...
    This book provides an overview of recent government initiatives in the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies themselves, the perceived problems and issues they seek to address, and the broader social and political context in which this is taking place.The underlying theme of the book is that a qualitative change has taken place in the politics of crime control in the UK since ... Read more

    $57.99 USD