All Outputs (11)

Victorian Prisons (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2008). Victorian Prisons. Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment (305 - 307). Willan

The 'Victorian Prison' refers to prisons during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).  The Victorian period is key to our understanding of prisons and imprisonment, not only in terms of the significant change4s that were made in teh administration... Read More about Victorian Prisons.

Separate and Silent Systems (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2008). Separate and Silent Systems. Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment (270 - 271). Willan

The separate and silent systems were two disciplinary regimes that became prominent in prisons during the early to mid-nineteenth century.  Both systems were based on the idea of reforming prisoners either through isolation or throught silent-associa... Read More about Separate and Silent Systems.

Less Eligibility (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2008). Less Eligibility. Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment (151 - 152). Willan

The principle of less eligibility is based on the notion that those in prisons (or work-houses, historically) should ensure material living conditions that compare unfavourably with those of similarly disadvantaged people outside these institutions.

HM Prison Service (2008)
Book Chapter
Bennett, J., & Johnston, H. (2008). HM Prison Service. 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.

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. 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. 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). Cullompton: 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?. 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. 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.

Probation Service (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Probation Service. 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.

Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance (2008)
Book Chapter
McCahill, M. (2008). Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance. 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.