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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817597603321

Autore

Liebling Alison

Titolo

The prison officer / / Alison Liebling, David Price and Guy Shefer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [England] : , : Willan Pub., , 2011

ISBN

1-136-84021-4

1-136-84022-2

1-283-04130-8

9786613041302

0-203-83299-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PriceDavid (Research assistant)

SheferGuy

Disciplina

365.02341

Soggetti

Prison wardens

Prisons - Officials and employees

Correctional personnel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : prison officers at their best -- 2. Who is the prison officer? -- 3. Understanding prison officers and their role -- 4. The complexities of the role -- 5. Staff-prisoner relationships : the heart of prison work -- 6. The centrality of discretion in the work of prison officers -- 7. Prison officer culture and unionisation -- 8. The prison officer in a modern bureaucracy -- 9. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It incorporates the significant increase in knowledge about the work of prison officer since the first edition was published and provides a live account of prison work and ways of understanding the role of the prison officer in the late-modern context. Few detailed narratives exist of prison work and the sort of role the prison officer occupies; this book addresses the gap. Using a range of quantitative and qualitative data and drawing on available theoretical literature it explores