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Summary
This is a thoroughly updated edition of The Prison Officer published in 2001. The aim of this book is to provide an accessible and really interesting guide to the world and work of the Prison Officer, showing the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to every operation carried out by officers. So little has been written on prison officers (in comparison to prisoners) and this book addresses the gap. This book will be of relevant to anyone with an interest in the work of a prison officer and essential for any established and aspiring officers.
Author Biography
Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Prisons Research Centre; David Price worked as a research assistant and co-author on the first edition and now works in IT; Guy Shefer is a research assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.
Table of Contents
| List of figures and tables | p. ix |
| List of abbreviations | p. xi |
| Preface to the second edition | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction: prison officers at their best | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| From the modern to the late-modern officer | p. 3 |
| The rationale for the book | p. 5 |
| Introducing appreciative inquiry | p. 6 |
| Notes | p. 12 |
| Who is the prison officer? | p. 14 |
| How many prison officers are there? | p. 15 |
| Female prison officers | p. 16 |
| Ethnic origin of prison officers | p. 18 |
| Age of prison officers | p. 19 |
| Recruitment turnover rates and length of service of prison officers | p. 20 |
| Employment conditions: pay and hours | p. 22 |
| Staffing levels and prisoner: officer ratios | p. 29 |
| Prison officer views | p. 32 |
| Conclusion | p. 39 |
| Notes | p. 40 |
| Understanding prison officers and their role | p. 42 |
| A typical day for a prison officer | p. 46 |
| Role model prison officers | p. 48 |
| Role model officers at Whitemoor prison | p. 51 |
| Wing differences and adjudications | p. 57 |
| Conclusion | p. 60 |
| Notes | p. 61 |
| The complexities of the role | p. 63 |
| Prison officers: stress and assault | p. 63 |
| Assaults | p. 67 |
| The role of female staff in male prisons | p. 72 |
| Exploring diversity: role differences in England and abroad | p. 76 |
| The role of personal officers | p. 77 |
| Conclusion: the role of the modern prison officer | p. 78 |
| Notes | p. 81 |
| Staff-prisoner relationships: the heart of prison work | p. 83 |
| Striving for 'right relationships' | p. 87 |
| Officer and prisoner views of each other | p. 95 |
| The significance of staff-prisoner relationships What did prisoners consider important in relationships with officers? | p. 104 |
| The importance of fairness | p. 105 |
| The granting and receiving of respect | p. 108 |
| Boundaries, relationships and corruption | p. 111 |
| Limits to relationships | p. 114 |
| The overuse of power | p. 115 |
| Conclusion | p. 119 |
| Notes | p. 119 |
| The centrality of discretion in the work of prison officers | p. 121 |
| Prison officers and the 'defects of total power' | p. 126 |
| Gresham Sykes and the late-modern prison officer | p. 128 |
| The 'un-exercise' of power | p. 131 |
| The power base of prison officers | p. 134 |
| Police discretion | p. 136 |
| Prison officers and prison rules | p. 137 |
| Prison officers and the use of discretion | p. 140 |
| Prison work as peacemaking | p. 146 |
| Daily penal practices and the trained application of reason | p. 147 |
| Notes | p. 180 |
| prison officer culture and unionisation | p. 153 |
| Introduction | p. 153 |
| Studies of police culture | p. 155 |
| Culture and the effects of prison work | p. 158 |
| Prison officer culture | p. 160 |
| The value of prison work | p. 165 |
| prison officer unionisation | p. 169 |
| The Origins of the Prison Officers' Association | p. 171 |
| The Role of the Modern Prison Officer' | p. 174 |
| Recent developments | p. 176 |
| Conclusions | p. 181 |
| Notes | p. 183 |
| The prison officer in a modern bureaucracy | p. 185 |
| Introduction | p. 185 |
| The structure of the Prison Service in 2010 | p. 186 |
| Management change in the Prison Service | p. 189 |
| The move to modernisation and Managerialism | p. 190 |
| The Lygo Report and Next Steps | p. 193 |
| Officers' thinking about management | p. 196 |
| Thinking theoretically about managerialism | p. 199 |
| What are the implications of managerialism for the prison officer? | p. 199 |
| Notes | p. 202 |
| Conclusions | p. 204 |
| Conclusion: the prison officer in the twenty-first century | p. 206 |
| Notes | p. 209 |
| Appendix: The Prison Staff Quality of Life Survey | p. 210 |
| References | p. 218 |
| Index | p. 230 |
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