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HM Prison Service (2008)
Book Chapter
Bennett, J., & Johnston, H. (2008). HM Prison Service. In Dictionary of prisons and punishment (115 - 117). Willan

HM Prison Service is the organization charged with managing public sector prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales.

Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (2008)
Book
Green, S., Feasey, S., & Lancaster, E. (2008). Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values. Willan

Offending behaviour is one of the most talked about issues in contemporary society. What can be done to stop people reoffending? What can be done to help people escape their criminal lifestyles? This book aims to review and analyse the different ways... Read More about Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values.

Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2008). Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century. In Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective (77 - 94). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter is concerned with understanding the role and working lives of turnkeys, warders, prison officers between 1835 and 1877 period, and to examine this role within a broader understanding of the nature of local imprisonment at this time.  Ove... Read More about Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century.

Introduction (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S., Lancaster, E., & Feasey, S. (2008). Introduction. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (xvii - xx). Willan Publishing

Our primary motivation for editing a collection of this sort was to begin redressing what we saw as a serious deficit in the literature.  Emerging from our collective experience of working with offenders and training criminal justice practitioners we... Read More about Introduction.

Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice. In S. Green, E. Lancaster, & S. Feasey (Eds.), Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (426-444). Willan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781843925705

Poor people make up the overwhelming majority of offenders in the criminal jusitce system (Prison Reform Trust 2007; Social Exclusion Unit 2002).  This is troubling.  Either poor poeple commit more crime or poor people are more likely to be convicted... Read More about Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice.

Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice? (2008)
Book Chapter
Tallant, C., Sambrook, M., & Green, S. (2008). Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice?. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (75 - 92). Willan Publishing

This chapter will seek to explore the different engagement skills that are utilised when working with offenders and the practical problems involved in such work.  It will be argued that while the opportunity still exists to do contructive work with o... Read More about Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice?.

Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement (2008)
Book Chapter
Lancaster, E., Feasey, S., & Green, S. (2008). Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (445 - 449). Willan Publishing

The idea for this book was originally conceived in the autumn of 2005.  Back then the three of us were responsible for managing the academic side of diploma in probation training (DipPS) across Yorkshire and Humberside.  At that time the future direc... Read More about Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement.

Every organisation matters: mapping the children and young people's voluntary and community sector (2008)
Report
Craig, G., Perkins, N., Gibson, H., Wilkinson, M., & Wray, J. (2008). Every organisation matters: mapping the children and young people's voluntary and community sector

This is a report of the first attempt at mapping the children and young people's voluntary and community sectors (CYPVCS), undertaken by a research team based at the University of Hull, commissioned jointly by the National Council for Voluntary Youth... Read More about Every organisation matters: mapping the children and young people's voluntary and community sector.

Probation Service (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Probation Service. In Dictionary of prisons and punishment (231 - 233). Willan Publishing

The (National) Probation Service is the organization within the criminal justice system that has responsibility for those offenders serving sentences in the community rather than in custody.

'Reclaiming the criminal' : the role and training of prison officers in England, 1877-1914 (2008)
Journal Article
Johnston, H. (2008). 'Reclaiming the criminal' : the role and training of prison officers in England, 1877-1914. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 47(3), 297-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2008.00521.x

This article examines the role and training of prison officers in England, between 1877 and 1914. It is concerned with the changing penal philosophies and practices of this period and how these were implemented in local prisons, and the duties of the... Read More about 'Reclaiming the criminal' : the role and training of prison officers in England, 1877-1914.

Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance (2008)
Book Chapter
McCahill, M. (2008). Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance. In Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond (199 - 219). Emerald Publishing

This chapter aims to make a contribution to recent debates on the 'governance of security' (Johnston & Shearing, 2003) by drawing upon empirical research conducted by the author and other writers on 'plural policing' and the construction of closed ci... Read More about Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance.

Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives? (2007)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W. (2007). Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?. In J. S. Jones, & J. Raisborough (Eds.), Risks, Identities and the Everyday (83-98). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315606552

We know very little about how people define risk (Tulloch and Lupton 2003, 16). Yet, interest in risk factors contributing to violence continues to be high as professionals search for tools to identify those ‘at-risk’ and seek empirically based interv... Read More about Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?.

Healthcare IT project failure: A systems perspective (2007)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, R., Butler, R. E., & Clarke, S. (2007). Healthcare IT project failure: A systems perspective. Journal of cases on information technology, 9(4), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2007100101

This case describes the experiences of a healthcare organization in the North of England that introduced a multi-lingual electronic patient information system, the first of its kind in this part of the country. This information technology (IT) based... Read More about Healthcare IT project failure: A systems perspective.