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Smith, Juliana Jamel. "The cultural dynamic of the prison industrial complex a critique of political rhetoric and popular film during the 1980's /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1450190.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed April 7, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-129).
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Enterkin, Jill. "Female prison officers in men's prisons." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248824.
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Guimier, Mayenc Marthe. "Prison vécue, prisons imaginées au 19e siècle." Grenoble 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989GRE39015.
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La detention penitentiaire est unanimement consideree comme inefficace et dangereuse. Pour essayer de comprendre la permanence et l'universalite de la prison sous de multiples visages, en depit de ce constat accablant, nous nous somme propose d'etudier, a partir de memoires et temoignages divers, comment l'homme se comporte lorsqu'il doit affronter ce monde nouveau et redoutable qu'est pour lui la prison et quelle est la part de l'imaginaire dans ce comportement : prison vecue. Nous avons ensuite analyse des oeuvres d'imagination faisant intervenir prisons ou prisonniers afin de mettre en evidence la maniere dont l'auteur se represente l'incarceration et quels sont les elements mythiques de ses figurations dans le contexte d'une epoque donnee : prisons imaginees au 19e siecle. Cette etude a mis au jour l'existence de representations mythiques actives, plus ou moins structurees en un mythe latent : le mythe initiatique qui sous-tend le reve d'obtenir par la mise a l'ecart la regeneration du coupable, puis sa re-naissance, a l'issue de la peine, sous la forme d'un homme nouveau, purifie, apte a reprendre sa place dans la communaute des hommes desireuse de l'accueillir. Helas ! l'institution mise en place par des legislateurs conduits par le dynamisme du mythe n'a enfante qu'un "mythe avorte" et la prison continue avec ses effets perversPenitentiary confinement is unanimously considered as inefficient and dangerous. To try to understand the permanency and universality of prison under numerous aspects, in spite of this damning statement, we intended -through various memoirs and witnesses'reports- to study how man behaves vhen he must face this new unrelenting world that prison is for him and what part is played by "the imagi- nary" in this behaviour : this is prison as experienced. Then we analysed imaginary works including prisons or prisoners, so as to point out the way the author visualizes incarceration, and what the mythical elements of his representations are, in the general environment of a given period : prisons as imagined in the 19the century. This study has brought out the existence of active mythical representa- tions which more or less built up a latent myth : the initiatory myth which under- lays the dream that the guilty one will be regenerated by being kept out of the way, then, at the end of his punishment, that he will be re-born as a new purified man able to take back his place in the community of men eager to welcome him. Unfortunately, the institution developed by legislators who were led by the power of the myth has only generated on "abortive myth" and prisons are kept on their evil consequences
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Chan, Hok-mo. "Medium security prison." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2595149x.
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Phillips, Catharine. "Prisoner, prison and situational characteristics and their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offending recorded by a sample of prisoners within Western Australian prisons." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2163.
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The importance that researchers and prison administrators have placed on ensuring that the good governance, security and safety of prisons are maintained has generated a number of studies of prison offending. Previous studies have identified several prisoner, prison and situational characteristics as relevant in regard to their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offences committed. However, no studies have been conducted in Australia, and therefore no studies have included Aboriginal prisoners in their prisoner samples. In addition, the differences in regard to legislation pertaining to prison offending between jurisdictions is also of importance when considering the generalisability of the body of research available on the subject.
The present study involved the examination of the relationship between several prisoner and prison characteristics and the prevalence and incidence of prison offending, and several prisoner, prison and situational characteristics and the types of prison offences committed by male, female, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal prisoner samples. The prevalence, incidence and type of prison offences were examined within and across all adult prison facilities in Western Australia, and included all adult prisoners who had spent the full 12-month study period in prison within Western Australia. Logistic regression and multiple regression analyses revealed that several prisoner and prison characteristics were significantly related to with the prevalence and incidence of prison offending, while logistic regression analyses revealed that several prisoner, prison and situational characteristics were significantly related to the type of prison offences committed by male, female, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal prisoners included in the prisoner sample.
The present study provides a useful addition to the existing body of research due to it being the first of its kind to include Aboriginal prisoners in an Australian context. The present study also provides generalisable findings to other Australian prisoner populations, and may prove to be of practical importance to other Australian jurisdictions, particularly those where the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people is of an extent similar to that of Western Australia. Practical interventions informed by the findings of the present study may help to reduce the prevalence and incidence of prison offending, and the severity of such offending, which may subsequently improve the security of prisons, the safety of staff, prisoners and visitors, and reduce the financial implications for prison systems, governments and taxpayers in respect of compensation for injured prison staff, prisoners or visitors, costs associated with the rectification of damage caused by prisoners, and costs associated with the administrative processes relating to the progression of formal prison charges.
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Ntsobi, Mfanelo Patrick. "Privatisation of prisons and prison services in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7700_1181896202.
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The privatization of public prisons has caused much controversy in South Africa as well as internationally. However, it should be noted that the level of resistance to privatisation within the South African context has been minimal by international standards. It is not clear what might have contributed to this quiet approach given the fact that there are many anti-privatisation campaigns driven by the labour movement and civil society groups in South Africa. This research investigation focused on the privatisation of prisons and prison services in South Africa and has explored the various advantages and disadvantages that exist in this respect.
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Coyle, Andrew G. "The organisational development of the Scottish Prison Service, with particular reference to the role and influence of the prison officer." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7557.
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This thesis argues that the Prison Service, while it has several unique features, is a bureaucratic structure with a typical mix of organisational strengths and weaknesses. The study of the development of the organisation of the Scottish Prison Service is, therefore, as possible and as proper as is the study of any large organisation. The first substantive chapter of the thesis analyses the historical development of the Scottish Prison Service within an organisational context. This has taken place in 3 main phases, the first two of which were sequential, the third less obviously so and more the result of the increasing involvement of central bureaucratic processes. Historically the Scottish prison system has been properly located within the criminal justice process and throughout the first 100 years of its modem existence the judiciary and the legal establishment played a central role in its development. The first phase or its history covers the years between 1835 and 1877 when it was taken progressively under central control. Particular attention is paid to William Brebner, the founding father of the Scottish prison system, and to the place of the General Prison at Perth. The second historical phase covers the tenure of office of the Scottish Prison Commission between 1877 and 1929. The significance of the Elgin Report of 1900, which has not previously been the subject of research, is described. The third phase of development which began in 1929 and continues today-has attempted to take the prison system out of the criminal justice process and to place it inappropriately within the mainstream of the administrative Civil Service. The thesis analyses the reasons for this and suggests that this structural change, rather than any lack of resources, is responsible for many of the present difficulties facing the Prison Service. The second substantive chapter of the thesis examines the place of the prison system within the sociology of organisations. By definition, an organisation can have only one primary goal. A feature of bureaucratic organisations is that those who work within them will not be satisfied with a single objective and are likely to develop secondary goals. One consequence of the location of the prison system within the mainstream of the civil service has been an emphasis on the secondary goals of imprisonment, principally that of rehabilitation, to the neglect of the primary goal which is the punishment involved in the deprivation of liberty for the length of time laid down by the court. A second consequence is the influence which staff are able to exert on the development of the service. The manner in which the trade unionism of prison staff has evolved in Scotland makes this area particularly worthy of study; an important and topical example is the control of difficult prisoners. The Thesis suggests that the management of the Scottish Prison Service is more participative in style than either the Official or the Staff Side recognise. Throughout the thesis many of the arguments presented are given support by responses to a questionnaire which was issued to serving members of staff and which is fully documented into appendices.
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Evans-Hall, Kellie-Ann Renee. "Prison Education: An Investigation of Pedagogic practices in Jamaican prisons." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488492.
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This study examines prison education within the Jamaican context with a view to uncovering, identifying and analysing key pedagogic techniques used by prison educators. Foucault was used as a theoretical framework for analysing the prison's role in society and the role of education in the prison context in order to focus on prison pedagogies.
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Sabaini, Raphael Tadeu. "Uma cidade entre presídios: ser agente penitenciário em Itirapina-SP." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-14012013-135107/.
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Situado no contexto de incremento das políticas penitenciárias de interiorização de unidades prisionais por todo o estado de São Paulo, este trabalho tem a intenção de analisar o cotidiano e as práticas sociais e profissionais de agentes penitenciários do município de Itirapina, cidade localizada no interior paulista, onde se encontram instaladas duas penitenciárias. Análise parte da ótica de agentes, moradores, comerciantes e demais moradores,para resgatar o modo pelo qual tais políticas de interiorização dos presídios têm afetado a vida no município em questão. Assim como os detentos, os agentes penitenciários têm seu cotidiano ligado à rotina da prisão, criam seu vocabulário e seu modo de agir transitando entre o interior da cadeia e o convívio com demais pessoas na cidade. A dinâmica social recebe grande influência dos valores e das práticas oriundos das penitenciárias construídas na cidade. Portanto, dentro deste contexto, a construção de discursos e valores colocam a profissão de agente penitenciário numa posição de destaque, cercada de privilégios, relativizando o conceito de prestígio, mesmo estando diretamente relacionado com um universo tão estigmatizado como o prisional. Através da observação da rotina desses profissionais e demais pessoas que se relacionam entre si, na intenção de perceber a dinâmica social cotidiana dessas pessoas, este trabalho também realizou entrevistas com agentes, moradores e comerciantes, buscando perceber como o ambiente criado dentro dos limites da prisão ultrapassa suas muralhas até invadir e influenciar a rotina da grande maioria da população local.. Dessa maneira, destaca-se a relevância do agente penitenciário nos mais variados espaços de sociabilidade do município, fazendo deles agentes sociais referenciais no contexto urbano. Esta dissertação volta sua análise para as transformações e consequências engendradas durante esse processo, percebendo o trânsito de agentes penitenciários, sua comunicação do convívio intramuros com o extramuros, ao mesmo tempo em que ambos se coalescem em sua dinâmica social. Percebe-se, portanto, como a cidade e a prisão interligam-se uma à outra, envolvendo todas as pessoas pertencentes a esse contexto.Situated in the context of increase policies internalization of prisons throughout the state of Sao Paulo, this paper aims to analyze the everyday practices of social and professional prison officers of Itirapina the municipality, a town in the interior, where are installed two prisons. Analysis through the views of agents, residents, merchants and other inhabitants of the city such as internalization of prison policies has affected the county in question. Like the inmates, prison officers have linked to their daily routine of prison, they create their vocabulary and their mode of action moving between the inside of jail and living with others in the city. The social dynamics developed in Itirapina receives great influence of the values and practices from the prisons built in the city. Therefore, within this context, the construction of discourses and values put the profession of the prison guard in Itirapina in a prominent position, surrounded by privileges, relativizing the concept of prestige, it is directly related to a universe so stigmatized prison. By observing the routine of these professionals and others who relate to each other, hoping to understand the social dynamics of these people daily, this study also conducted interviews with staff, residents and merchants, seeking to understand how the environment created within the confines of the prison beyond its walls to break the routine and influence of the great majority of the population of the city. Thus, we highlight the relevance of the prison guard in a variety of social spaces in the city, making them agents of social references in the urban context. This essay turns its analysis to the changes and consequences engendered during this process, realizing the transit of prison guards, their communication with the extramural with intramural living, while they both coalesce in its social dynamics. It is clear, therefore, how city and prison are interconnected to each other, involving all those present here.
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Dietz, Erik Faust. "Defining 'too close for comfort' environmental and individual determinants of perceived crowding among a federal inmate population /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.99 Mb., 180 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3205428.
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Piche, Justin. "Restorative prisons?" Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27406.
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In its infancy, restorative justice emerged not only as an 'alternative' to prison but also as a competing justice model that sought to reduce our reliance on the existing retributive 'criminal justice' system. It is said that restorative justice initiatives distinguish themselves from the prevailing punitive approach to 'crime' as they are guided by a different set of questions, objectives, values and principles that provide opportunities for restorative outcomes. In theory, these community-based 'alternative' programs were to divert cases away from the retributive 'criminal justice' system' so that reparations between 'offenders', victims and affected community members could be made possible.
In my study, I have identified 277 initiatives that claim to be in the business of restorative justice, many of which are either funded, administrated or receive their case loads from institutions within the existing 'criminal justice' system. In these cases, we must ask ourselves whether the restorative justice initiatives operating within the parameters of the 'criminal justice' system adhere to the objectives, values and principles outlined in the philosophy of restorative justice.
To begin to address this very question, which is the central objective of this study, I examine one particular pilot project administrated by Correction Service Canada (CSC) from April 2001 to November 2005 called the Restorative Justice Unit (RJ Unit). This program, which was housed in Grande Cache Institution (GCI), was created by CSC to determine whether or not it would be feasible to transform the prison into a restorative correctional environment. In my analysis of this program, I unpack this notion and demonstrate that CSC has merely adopted the descriptors of the restorative approach to legitimate punishment and control under the guise of restorative justice and the rehabilitative rhetoric of the cognitive behavioural approach.
In a story that reads more of the same, I conclude that the RJ Unit failed to adhere to the objectives, values and principles of the restorative approach due to the clear absence of political, relational and operational changes at the structural level of the organization and of the prison in which the program participants were housed. As such, I argue that CSC has and continues to be involved (with its other 'restorative justice' initiatives) in a process of absorption, whereby only the descriptors and practices of the restorative justice model that do not threaten the interests of the organization are incorporated into its existing framework. I contend that such a process allows CSC to maintain the dominant punitive character of its prisons by employing the language of restorative justice to deflect criticism from those who argue that the 'criminal justice' process, especially imprisonment, does not address the needs of 'offenders', victims and affected members of the community and also further contributes to the pain and marginalization experienced by these parties.
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Christiansen, Sara. "Preventing Radicalization in Prisons: A comparative analysis of the Danish and Swedish Prison and Probation Service's counter-radicalization strategies within prisons." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25955.
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It is important to direct resources to effective evidence- and value-based counter-radicalization strategies, especially within prisons. With the increasing threat ofviolence and terror from various violent extremist groups, such as Daesh, thefocus on prisons should be intensified. While radicalization within prisons was nota significant problem a decade ago, the new recruitment strategies from e.g.Daesh now pose a new challenge for prisons. This thesis identifies contemporaryliterature on radicalization, deradicalization, and violent extremism within aprison context. From this seven recurrent themes were identified: overcrowding,religious chaplains, sectioning, risk assessment, monitoring and supervision,rehabilitation programs and education of staff. This was then used to develop anassessment model, which was based on the Canadian Risk-Need-Responsivitymodel’s three core principles, for evaluating and conducting counterradicalizationstrategies. The assessment model was then used as a framework fora comparative analysis of the Danish and Swedish Prison and Probation Services’counter-radicalization strategies within prisons. The results show that bothcountries adhered to a degree to the assessment model and current literaturewithin the field. The results further reveal that there is a lack of empiricalevidence and data on radicalization and counter-radicalization within prisons, andthat the data available is somewhat outdated.
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Fischer, Ronald W. "A comparative study of two Civil War prisons : Old Capitol prison and Castle Thunder prison /." Thesis, This resource online This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02092007-102017/.
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Bird, Hayden James. "Prisons, their 'partners', and 'resettlement' : a study of four male prisons." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2007. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3207/.
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This jointly funded Hallam Studentship between Sheffield Hallam University and HM Prison Service Area Office: Yorkshire and Humberside was originally borne out of consultation undertaken to develop a Regional Resettlement Strategy (see Senior, 2002; 2003). Hence, significant moves had been made to improve awareness around, and the services involved in, prisoner `resettlement'. This took place amidst reemerging national interest in aspects of such provision and activities, and their effectiveness in reducing `re-offending' rates. Unlike the Regional Resettlement Strategy, this independent research examines the assumption that `partnerships' enhance the delivery of `resettlement' services within prisons. The thesis takes as its focus a period when prisons and their `partners' were considering, and responding to, emerging central governmental proposals for a National Offender Management Service which resulted from the publication of Patrick Carter's (2003) `Managing Offenders, Reducing Crime: A New Approach'. It makes problematic, and identifies, key features of `partnerships' and shows disparate meanings are attached to the terms `resettlement' and `partnership'. These are influenced by a range of political, organisational, and individual factors. Recognising `partnerships' have created, and continue to create, enhancements in the forms of more `client-centred', `holistic' services, exposing prison staff to broader skills/expertise and organisational values, it is acknowledged that these are often accompanied by increasingly complex relationships. These include those between staff within prisons, organisations, and service users' experiences of these. As a result, this thesis brings into question the suitability of existing theories in depicting the `state' and the role(s) of `partnerships'. The Action Research study utilises a basic text response survey, `solicited' prisoner diaries, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and participant observation to assess the opinions of participants from a range of backgrounds, be they staff members or service users from statutory, private, or Voluntary and Community Sector organisations. It juxtaposes action research with the adoption of a `grounded theory' approach to data collection and analysis. The influences of self perceptions and personal attitudes are accounted for in both shaping, and responding to, the interactions and environments researched. Data revealed five key themes and each of these constitutes a chapter. These are, `Perceptual Understanding', `Data Management', `Communication', `Service Provision' and `NOMS'. Within each of these themes lie apparently contrasting issues. However, the analysis reveals that prisons can experience aspects of these paradoxically. Two models of `partnerships' are proposed by drawing on aspects of these paradoxes. These include a hypothetical `worst case scenario' and one constructed from `best practice'. Through appraising the disparate meanings given to `resettlement' and `partnerships' the thesis examines how various actors can make sense of `partnerships', enhance practice, and sustain a `holistic' vision of `resettlement' provision. The `best practice' model illustrates how this is more likely to be achieved, even during times of organisational change.
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Guimond, David. "Prisons of industry, the recent history of american private prisons, 1978-1985." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0032/MQ38753.pdf.
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Baucom, Tracy R. "Evaluation of the day treatment program at Brown Creek Correctional Institution : a follow-up study /." Electronic version (PDF), 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/baucomt/tracybaucom.html.
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Artur, Angela Teixeira. "As origens do \"Presídio de mulheres\" do estado de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-31052012-163121/.
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Em 1942, entrou em vigor um novo Código Penal e com ele foi estabelecida a primeira diretriz legislativa para a separação física de homens e mulheres no interior do complexo prisional brasileiro. Tal código determinava, pelo Art. 29º, em seu 2º parágrafo, que: As mulheres cumprem pena em estabelecimento especial, ou, à falta, em secção adequada de penitenciária ou prisão comum. Atendendo à determinação do Código, em 1942 foi inaugurado, nos terrenos da Penitenciária do Estado, o Presídio de Mulheres sob os cuidados das freiras da Congregação do Bom Pastor dAngers. A criação do presídio foi precedida por um debate que se estendeu pelos primeiros anos de seu estabelecimento e foi promovido por autoridades penitenciárias, políticos, advogados e médicos.The new Penal Code came into force in 1942, along with this, it was established the first directive role to separate men and women in brazilian prisons. The Code determinate, by Art. 29th, in its 2nd paragraph, that: Women have to serve their sentence at especial establishment, or, on its absence, in appropriate section in the penitentiary or common prison. Answering for the Code determination, in 1942, it was inaugurated, on land of States Penitentiary, the Womens Prison (Presídio de Mulheres) in the care of the nuns from the Congregação do Bom Pastor dAngers. The prisons creation was preceded by a debate that was extended for the first years of its establishment and was promoted by penitentiary authorities, politicians, lawyers and doctors.
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Lucko, Paul Michael. "Prison farms, walls, and society : punishment and politics in Texas, 1848-1910 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Pacini, Patrizia. "Anatomie de la prison. Aspects politico-sociaux de la condition carcérale en Italie et en France." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AZUR0011.
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La recherche s’insère de façon réflexive et critique, dans le cadre théorique de l’analyse sociologique, législative, politique et institutionnelle de type comparatif, c’est-à-dire une reconstruction du cadre unitaire et organique de l’univers carcéral de deux pays européens qui sont très proche historiquement et culturellement : la France et l’Italie. C’est une représentation de la dimension carcérale quotidienne des détenus, une réalité articulée et variable qui constitue un des thèmes les plus controversés dans les débats politiques et sociaux actuels au niveau européen. Un travail de recherche focalisé sur cinq thématiques principales : la santé, l’école et l’éducation, le travail, le relations avec la famille, le rôle du volontariat. Ce travail se propose d’enquêter la réalité, les processus et les perspectives, les modèles cohérents et incohérents de réhabilitation au-delà des stéréotypes les plus diffus et bien établis. Dans le fond, la thèse consiste à définir et comprendre comment un individu peut socialiser par le moyen de parcours, de rencontres et d’expériences significatives dans un endroit clos, techniquement désocialisé, dégradé et extrêmement envahissant telle la prison. C’est-à-dire comment la prison, dispositif étatique autoritaire et dogmatique éloigné de la société, puisse constituer un organe de socialisation positive qui permette au prisonnier de surpasser la dépersonnalisation au travers de motivants et dynamiques constructives, développant une nouvelle prise de conscience, une morale intégrée et une comparaison enrichissante avec des modèles externes; le tout lui permettant d’interrompre son parcours de délinquant et d’assumer un nouveau style de vieThe theoretical context of this work is the comparative analysis of the sociological, legislative, political and institutional aspects of the prison universe in two European countries which are very close, historically and culturally, France and Italy. The aim is to provide a representation of the everyday dimension of the prison, an articulated and variable reality that is one of the most controversial themes in the current political and social debate in Europe. The research work focuses on five main themes: health, school and education, work, relationship with the family, the role of volunteering. This work aims at investigating the reality, the processes and the perspectives, the coherent and incoherent models of rehabilitation beyond the most diffuse and well-established stereotypes. Essentially, the thesis consists in defining and understanding how an individual can socialize through meaningful paths, encounters and experiences in a closed, technically de-socialized, degraded and extremely invasive place such as prison. That is to say, how prison, an authoritarian and dogmatic state facility far removed from society, can constitute a positive means of socialization that allows the prisoner to overcome depersonalization through motivating and constructive dynamics, developing a new awareness, a moral integrity and a rewarding comparison with external models. All this allows him to interrupt his career as a delinquent and assume a new lifestyle
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Symkovych, Anton. "Power relations in a Ukrainian prison." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609920.
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Mariano, Grasielly Jeronimo dos Santos. "Amamentação no ambiente prisional: A experiência de detentas em penitenciárias do Estado de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/83/83131/tde-12052017-114233/.
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Este estudo buscou compreender a experiência e os significados da amamentação para mães que amamentam seus filhos durante o cumprimento de pena. A pesquisa foi realizada em seis penitenciárias femininas do estado de São Paulo, de Fevereiro de 2014 à Maio de 2016. Objetivos: Caracterizar a prática de aleitamento materno realizada por mulheres reclusas em estabelecimentos prisionais femininos; Compreender o significado consciente da experiência de amamentar atribuído por mulheres privadas de liberdade e Compreender como os significados atribuídos pelas mulheres presas se manifestam nas ações em relação ao seu processo de amamentar. Metodologia: Essa pesquisa adotou o Interacionismo Simbólico e o modelo \"Pesando Riscos e Benefícios\" como referenciais teóricos e a Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados como referencial metodológico. Primeiramente, para o alcance do primeiro objetivo, foram entrevistadas 85 mulheres, sendo que dessas, 30 participaram da fase de obtenção de dados qualitativos. Resultados: As mulheres tinham entre 18 e 38 anos, a maioria era solteira (48,2%) e 82,3% com mais de um filho. As 82 (100%) crianças que conviviam com suas mães nas penitenciárias tinham entre 0 e 11 meses; 41( 50%) estavam entre 0 e 3 meses e entre essas, 65,9% estavam em aleitamento materno exclusivo; 28 (34,1%) crianças tinham entre três e seis meses de idade, sendo que 10 (35,7%) eram amamentadas exclusivamente. O uso de chupeta foi observado em 39 (47,5%) crianças. Dos dados qualitativos foram identificados três temas: BUSCANDO A REMISSÃO PELA MATERNIDADE, VIVENDO MAIS UMA CONDENAÇÃO e RECONHECENDO QUE HOUVE PERDAS, MAS QUE VALEU A PENA, os quais revelaram que, no conjunto das interações dessa mulher, no contexto prisional, a amamentação desempenha um papel relevante no desenvolvimento do vínculo entre mãe e filho e na promoção do bem estar materno. A nutriz encontra, nessa prática, uma fonte de proteção emocional. Nessa perspectiva, a sua vida deixa de ter a condição penal como foco da existência, projetando na criança o centro de suas atenções e nessa interação, a fonte de uma experiência plena e prazerosa, que possibilita mudanças de visão de mundo. Compreendeu-se que, para a mãe presa, a visão de que o cárcere é um lugar seguro, onde ela pode conviver e cuidar do filho perde-se por completo com a certeza da separação de seu filho. Nesse processo, a mãe vivencia a experiência de construção de vínculo com o seu filho, tendo como horizonte, uma futura ruptura, a certeza da separação que virá com o cumprimento do limite de permanência da criança no presídio. Os resultados desta investigação, fornecem subsídios aos profissionais do sistema penitenciário, para a necessária revisão ou construção de medidas e ambientes com fundamentos, sociais, jurídicos, que promovam não só a oportunidade de guarda do filho da presa, mas a continuidade de vínculos sociais familiares e segurança do exercício da maternidade, intra e extra muros prisional, incrementando as ações de acolhimento sensível, que permita às mulheres presas encontrarem caminhos para também reconstruir as relações com seus meios sociais.This study aimed to understand the experience and meaning of breastfeeding for mothers who breastfed their children, while serving a custodial sentence. The study was conducted in six female penitentiaries in the state of São Paulo, between February 2014 and May 2016. Objectives: To describe the breastfeeding practices of female prisoners; To understand the meaning that breastfeeding had for women deprived of their freedom and to understand how it influenced their behavior. Methodology: This study adopted Symbolic Interactionism and the model \"Risks and Benefits\" as the theoretical underpinnings of the study and Grounded Theory as the methodological framework. To achieve the first objective, we collected quantitative data from 85 women, and of these, 30 participated in the second phase of the study to achieve the other objectives. Results: The women were between 18 and 38 years of age, most were single (48.2%) and 82.3% had more than one child. The 82 (100%) infants living with their mothers in prison were between 1 day and 11 months; 41 (50%) were between one day and 3 months and of these, 65.9% were breastfeeding exclusively; 28 (34.1%) infants were between three and six months, and 10 (35.7%) were exclusively breastfed. Pacifiers were used by 39 (47.5%) of the infants. Three themes were identified in the qualitative data: SEEKING REFUGE THROUGH MOTHERHOOD, SERVING TWO CONCURRENT SENTENCES and COMPROMISED BUT SATISFYING MOTHERING. For woman in the prison context, breastfeeding played a very important role in the development of the bond between mothers and infants and promoted the welfare of the woman. Breastfeeding was a source of emotional protection. From this perspective, the mothers´ lives ceased to have a criminal status as its focus, because the infant became the center of their attention. For them, this interaction became a fulfilling and enjoyable experience that enabled them to change their whole outlook on life to one of positivity. The ultimate separation from their infants made women change their view of prison as not a safe place to live and care for the infant. Their experience of bonding with the infant enabled women to realize that they had a positive future. The results of this study have the potential to be used to inform and ultimately change public policy in relation to how these women are dealt within the penitentiary system. It can increase the sensitivity of health care professions working within the penitentiary system to become much more sensitive to the needs of mothers and their infants thus enabling women to re-evaluate their lives, increase hope for a better future and change direction. The findings strongly support the idea of treating women with dignity and respect in the knowledge that this gives them hope and is the basis for changing their lives for the better.
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Donnelly, Claire. "A Problematic Business Model: The Effect of Private Prisons on Arrests." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1649.
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Past work related to the private prison system has focused on direct comparisons between private and public facilities, including their respective quality, cost-effectiveness, and influence on recidivism. Using 2005 United States data compiled from a prison facility census, county census, and information on number of arrests by county, I examine the effect that the presence of private prisons has on the number of adult male arrests per county. Across four regression models, I initially find a significant effect of private prisons on arrests, but find that effect becomes insignificant once county and prison controls are accounted for. This suggests that the presence of a private prison in a particular county does not necessarily lead to a significant increase or decrease of arrests in that area.
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César, Segundo Breno Wanderley. "Os sentidos do aprisionamento na contemporaneidade : um estudo de caso no Presídio do Serrotão em Campina Grande-PB." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7347.
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This thesis aims to discuss, in a historic perspective, processes of prisons constitution, the main changes in which they have been through and how such a trajectory reflects in Brazilian society, with the objective of a better understanding the historic senses and current disputes. Before Brazilian prison model, we present a case of study at Serrotão Prison, in Campina Grande, Paraíba state, northeast of Brazil. We intend to research about new senses imposed by the general dynamics of capitalism to prisons and about how these questions of macro nature reflect a concrete situation in the local. Taking approaches on development and constitution of prisons in western societies, by Foucault, Bauman, Wacquant, Michel Cavadino, James Digman and others, we search to understand which current senses are in dispute contemporarily. This work was built through bibliography research, documents research, interviews and a focal group, besides direct observation. We indicate how the State lost its mission on socializing prisoners and created the organized crime phenomenon, particularly in the interior of prisons as a response for lack of sense for prisons as a space of social recovering. We search to present senses currently attributed to Brazilian prison system, for prisoners, prisons administrators and institutions in this sector, proving that the State does not accomplish its role of socializing prisoners and showing that, the lack of public policies towards them when they leave prison make them keep returning to prison.
O presente trabalho se propõe a discutir, em uma perspectiva histórica, os processos de constituição das prisões, as principais mudanças pelas quais vem passando e sobre como tal trajetória repercute na sociedade brasileira, com o intuito de melhor apreender os sentidos históricos e que atualmente se encontram em disputa sobre as prisões. Diante do modelo prisional brasileiro, apresentamos um estudo de caso realizado no Presídio do Serrotão, em Campina Grande/ PB. Pretendemos, com isso, apurar em que medida novos sentidos vêm sendo impostos pela dinâmica geral do capitalismo às prisões, e sobre como essas questões de natureza macro repercutem em uma situação concreta, localizada, referida ao Presídio do Serrotão. A partir das abordagens sobre a constituição e desenvolvimento das prisões nas sociedades ocidentais, por Foucault, Bauman, Wacquant, Michael Cavadino, James Digman e outros, buscamos compreender quais os sentidos das prisões que estão em disputa, sobretudo, na contemporaneidade. A construção do trabalho foi realizada por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, de pesquisa documental, de entrevistas e da realização de grupo focal, além do recurso da observação direta. Indicamos como o Estado perdeu sua missão de ressocializar os apenados e possibilitou o fenômeno do crime organizado, particularmente no interior das prisões, como resposta ao esvaziamento do sentido da prisão como espaço de reabilitação social. Buscamos apresentar os sentidos atualmente atribuídos ao sistema prisional brasileiro por apenados, por gestores do sistema e por instituições atuantes no setor, constatando que o Estado não cumpre com seu papel de ressocializar os detentos e que, por não existirem políticas públicas voltadas para o egresso, acabam delinqüindo novamente e retornando ao presídio.
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Genter, Shaun Stewart. "Prisons and community development the effects of prison privatization on employment growth in rural U.S. counties /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2008/s_genter_113008.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in sociology)--Washington State University, December 2008.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 19, 2009). "Department of Sociology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-54).
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Goldingay, Sophie Jennifer Elizabeth. "Separation or mixing: issues for young women prisoners in Aotearoa New Zealand prisons." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social Work and Human Services, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3740.
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Young women who serve time in adult prisons in New Zealand mix with adult prisoners, unless it is not considered safe to do so. If they do not mix, they serve their sentence in relative isolation, unable to participate in programs, recreation or other aspects of prison life. This is in contrast to male youth in prison who are placed in have specialised youth units to mitigate against the perceived negative effects of mixing with adult prisoners. Using discursive strategies to analyse texts from semi-structured interviews with young women in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) prisons and focus group interviews with iwi representatives, this study offers a challenge to dominant framings of both young and adult women prisoners. The study has shown that young women prisoners’ resilience is likely to be strengthened, and opportunities for health and well-being improved, within stable relationships with adults with whom they relate. Whanau-type structures in prison are in keeping with indigenous values and have the potential to provide mentoring relationships which may broaden the current limited subjectivities experienced by young women prisoners.
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Barkworth, Julie. "Prisons, procedural justice and motivational posturing: Examining prisoners' well-being and compliance behaviour." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380563.
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Early penology literature identified some of the ‘pains’ of prison life prisoners are faced with (e.g., Sykes, 1958). How prisoners adapt to and cope with these pains can have detrimental effects on their general well-being and psychological distress. Prisoners are much more likely than the general population to experience stress, anxiety and depression, which increases their risk of self-harm and suicide (e.g., Cooper & Berwick, 2001). It is therefore important to find ways to improve prisoners’ well-being and reduce distress while in prison. Some prisoners may ‘act out’ by disregarding staff directives and prison rules as a way to regain and maintain some degree of personal power and control when faced with the reality of their environment. In doing so, the order required to maintain a healthy and stable prison is compromised. Staff-prisoner relationships are consistently shown to be important for maintaining order in prisons. However, order not only relies on what staff do, but on prisoners voluntarily cooperating with staff and willingly complying with prison rules and procedures. A growing body of literature demonstrates procedural justice to be effective for improving prisoners’ well-being and psychological distress, and reducing prisoner misconduct (e.g., Beijersbergen et al., 2014, 2015; Reisig & Mesko, 2009). However, little has been done to examine for whom, and under what conditions, procedural justice may be most effective. Research in other regulatory contexts (e.g., taxation, policing) has begun to examine the role of motivational postures in the relationship between procedural justice and compliance behaviours. Motivational postures measure the extent of social distancing people place between themselves and authorities (Braithwaite, 2003, 2009). The current study uses Braithwaite’s (2003) motivational posturing framework to understand whether procedural justice has different effects on cooperation and compliance behaviour for prisoners in Australia. Utilising self-report survey data from 177 male prisoners, and official prison records from 129 of those respondents, in four maximum security prisons in Queensland, Australia, this thesis addresses six research questions. Results from this research demonstrate that: 1) prisoners who view staff as procedurally just also report higher levels of general well-being and lower levels of psychological distress; 2) prisoners who view staff as procedurally just are also more likely to perceive them as legitimate, and are more willing to cooperate with staff and comply with prison rules and procedures; 3) perceived staff legitimacy (i.e., obligation to obey staff) partially mediates the relationship between procedural justice and cooperation, and fully mediates the relationship between procedural justice and compliance; 4) Braithwaite’s five motivational posturing styles are present among Australian prisoners; 5) procedural justice is positively related to deference postures (i.e., commitment) and negatively related to defiance postures (i.e., resistance, disengagement and game-playing); and finally, 6) three of the five motivational postures (i.e., commitment, resistance and disengagement) were found to have either mediating and/or moderating effects on the relationship between procedural justice and self-reported cooperation, self-reported compliance and actual compliance. This thesis provides important contributions to procedural justice and motivational posturing literature, and has important implications for developing evidence-based best-practices for prison staff to more effectively engage with and manage prisoners.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Crim & Crim Justice
Arts, Education and Law
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Gardiner, Aaron. "Reintegrative architecture." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Porter, Ian. "Tales of 2 prisons : discipline and education for women in open and closed prisons." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2009. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54374/.
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As the prison population continues to rise year on year, the Prison Service has, as a consequence, become one of the most prominent providers of adult education in England and Wales. The female incarcerated demographic alone has doubled over the past decade. Despite this backdrop, prison education remains under-researched compared with mainstream learning settings. This doctoral research is based on in-depth case studies of two women's prisons, (HMP 'Freshfields' and HMP 'Arkham') examining how learning is understood and facilitated within strikingly contrasting open and closed settings. The study (employing strategies of ethnographic observation and semi-structured interviews) offers methodological insights in terms of employing successful qualitative strategies in closed off, socially excluded contexts. This thesis argues that the rigid government approach towards core prison curricula provision, framed around a ubiquitous, instrumentalist, basic skills framework, is largely misguided and rigidly simplistic. The case is made that alternative forms of literacy discourse more closely centred on the experience of prisoners, along with creative forms of learning, offer wider and more compelling benefits in terms of esteem and skills. The nature of the transition (educationally and emotionally) from closed to open regimes is explored, demonstrating ways in which the open prisons promote communities of practice more effectively than closed prisons. The underlying tension between employment and domestic skills for women in prison is also interrogated. In addition to arguing for an educational overhaul, the thesis concludes that a structural shift away from closed, barbed wire, institutions along with an overall reduction in numbers of prisoners is needed.
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Bangert, Elizabeth C. "The Press and the Prisons: Union and Confederate Newspaper Coverage of Civil War Prisons." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626316.
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DuBois, Kate J. "Bidding at the prison auction house an exchange of prisoners' and university students' perceptions of crime and punishment /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10070.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2009.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 60 p. : col. ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-54).
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Higgins, Peter McRorie. "Medical care in English prisons." Thesis, Open University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406489.
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King, Susan Therese, and sue king@unisa edu au. "The Changing of the Guard: conceptualisations of prison officers' work in three South Australian prisons." Flinders University. Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management, 2007. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070313.175216.
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The prison officer is central to prison life, yet understandings of this role are limited.
This thesis argues that the two overarching (and often competitive)conceptualisations of prison officers' work as custodial work or human services work are limited. Eight conceptualisations of prison officers' work from the correctional literature are identified - Para-military officer, Security Officer, Warehouser of
prisoners, Public Servant /bureaucrat, Professional, Manager of Prisoners ,
Therapist and Case Manager. These conceptualisations are defined and related to one another by examining their
construction through discourses of prison purpose and prison process (Adler and
Longhurst 1994).
The thesis develops the analysis of du Gay (1996) that organisations use discourse as a means of constructing work identities for their employees and the work of Halford and Leonard (1999) who argue that workers are active agents in this process and do not always take on the identity the organisation is seeking to promote.
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How has the role of the prison officer been conceptualised by the South Australian Department for Correctional Services over time?
How is the role of the prison officer currently conceptualised by personnel working within South Australian prisons, what influences the way the role is conceptualised and what purposes do these conceptualisations serve?
To what extent have the new conceptualisations of the role of the prison officer,
articulated by the Department for Correctional Services in the last ten years, been adopted by staff within prisons and what determines the influence of these new conceptualisations? These questions are addressed using qualitative research techniques of document
analysis and semi-structured interviews.
The thesis identifies that in recent decades the Department has emphasised conceptualisations of the role constructed from normalisation and rehabilitative discourses. Interviewees, forty-four working in three South Australian prisons, (both departmental and privately managed), conceptualised the work of a prison officer as
complex and unique and identified three influential audiences for the performance of
prison officers' work prisoners, officers and their colleagues, and the Departmental
hierarchy. Interviewees constructed the role of the prison officer in terms that would
earn respect for the work from each of these audiences and manage the vulnerability of the officer as a worker and a prison officer. Half of those interviewed conceptualised the prison officer based on a Manager of Prisoners. Other
interviewees, critical of the role within their prison, described it as a Warehouser and
saw the competition between custodial and human services roles as irreconcilable.
The thesis argues that Departmental discourse can be seen to have a significant influence on the conceptualisation of the prison officers role by those working within prisons, but that it competes for influence with the discourse of the other powerful audiences for the performance of prison officers' work prisoners and
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Sangkhanate, Assanee. "Managing prisons using a 'business-like approach' : a case study of the Scottish Prison Service." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6402.
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The primary aim of this research is to examine the extent which prison management has been influenced by New Public Management (NPM). Much has been written about the growing influence of NPM on public services like health, transport and education. In the prison field, however, the literature is relatively limited. Accordingly, with particular reference to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), this research attempts to fill this gap in knowledge by exploring the influence of NPM on the SPS and its relation to the use of contractual management of prisons. Key concerns of this research are the development of prison policy during the last two decades, the use of “business-like” mechanisms to manage prisons and the accountability measures which the SPS has undergone as a result of NPM. The main sources of data are interviews with key actors in the recent development of the SPS and documentary analysis. Interviewees were asked during the semi-structured interviews to reflect on the key concerns referred to above. Material from the interviews was then integrated with academic literature, policy papers, annual reports, contracts and other published documents. This research concludes that NPM has affected the SPS on the dimensions of both prison policy discourse and of operations. For the former, the analysis of contemporary prison discourse demonstrates that the focus of prison policy in Scotland has extended over time from traditional concepts, for instance control, deterrence and rehabilitation, to embrace managerial ones such as effectiveness, efficiency and value for money. On the operational dimension, this research reveals that the extensive use of a “business-like” approach in the management of prisons, in particular the delegation of decision-making power from the Headquarters to prison governors; the use of contractual management to manage both private and public prisons; the use of contracting out for prisoner transportation and prisoner programme and the SPS’s focus on ‘customer service’. In summary, the influence of NPM is more far-reaching than the privatisation of public prisons as such. This is because NPM changed the way public prisons are managed by bringing in managerial mechanisms borrowed from the private sector.
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Miles, Joseph M. "Public Policy and Private Prisons: A probe into legislation that populates private prisons with immigrants." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1420732865.
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Polonio, Jeffery Nelson. "Assessing the effectiveness of the California Department of Correction vocational education programs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1085.
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Cigarcic, Natasa. ""We don't need more prisons, bigger prisons, better prisons. We need better justice." : En kritisk diskursanalys av serierna Oz och Orange Is The New Black." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36204.
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Den här studien ämnar ta reda på hur intagna på anstalter skildras i fiktiva fängelsemiljöer. Med hjälp av kritisk diskursanalys och med identifikation, konstruktion och intersektionalitet som utgångspunkt vill jag ta reda på hur bilden av den kriminella människan skapas och förmedlas till oss via television. Underhållningskulturen utgör en stor del av hur vi speglar verkligheten och vad vi uppfattar vara axiom. Det innehåll och information som förmedlas till oss är med och formar våra sociala övertygelser och inställningar – även när det kommer till fiktiv representation. Genom utförd analys och stöd från tidigare forskning visar uppsatsen att det innehåll som porträtteras är en överdriven konstruktion av fängelselivet och dess intagna och att den bild av dem som förmedlas tjänar till att bygga upp rädsla och skapa en ännu större klyfta mellan kriminella och samhället.
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Zombek, Angela Marie. "CAMP CHASE AND LIBBY PRISONS: AN EXAMINATION OF POWER AND RESISTANCE ON THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HOME FRONTS 1863-1864." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1152808040.
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Wilson, Tanisca. "An Exploration of the College-Educated Female Incarceration Experience." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/109.
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There has been a significant increase in the nation's female incarceration rate. During 2006, the number of women in prison increased by approximately 4.5 %. The increase of female prisoners from 2005 to 2006 was larger than the average growth rate of 2.9% from 2000 through 2005. Women ages 35 to 39 made up the largest percentage of female prisoners. At the end of 2006, females made up 7.2% of the prison population under State or Federal jurisdiction, up from 6.7% in 2000. Oklahoma had the highest female incarceration rate in the nation, approximately 129, 000 inmates; followed by Louisiana, which incarcerated 108, 000 female inmates (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2006). The purpose of this study was to describe how college- educated incarcerated females in a state prison perceived their incarceration experiences. The central research question was: how do college-educated incarcerated females perceive their incarceration experience? Data were collected by conducting interviews with nine women who had a minimum of two years of college-level coursework from a regionally accredited college or university and who did not have a history of drug abuse. Findings suggest that while there are negative aspects of college-educated females' incarceration experiences, the totality of the experience was not negatively perceived.
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Lima, Mônica Cristina Ribeiro Alexandre d'Auria de. "Estratégias para o controle da tuberculose no sistema prisional: revisão integrativa da literatura." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22133/tde-08052015-165959/.
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As instituições prisionais são tidas como um reservatório para doenças transmissíveis, entre estas a tuberculose. O estudo objetivou analisar na produção cientifica as estratégias para o controle da tuberculose no sistema prisional. Assim, elegeu-se a revisão integrativa da literatura a qual se deu com a busca de artigos científicos originais nas bases de dados PubMed, Literatura Latino-Americana em Ciências de Saúde, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Alied Health Literature, Web of Science e Scopus, lançando mão de diferentes estratégias de buscas com a utilização de descritores controlados e não controlados, cuja seleção dos artigos foi pautada em critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Após as buscas nas bases de dados com a leitura de título e resumo das publicações, foi possível pré-selecionar para esta revisão 33 artigos científicos originais e, conseqüente à leitura na íntegra dos mesmos chegou-se à amostra final de 22 artigos, que compõem este estudo. Pela leitura dos artigos foi possível identificar 11 estratégias, todas direcionadas à detecção da doença, e agrupá-las em três categorias \"Busca Ativa como estratégia para o controle da tuberculose\", \"Busca Ativa como estratégia para identificação de tuberculose latente\" e \"Utilização de imagem para diagnóstico da tuberculose\". A partir dos estudos incluídos nesta revisão pode-se evidenciar que quando as estratégias são desenvolvidas como complementares e realizadas periodicamente proporciona maiores chances do controle efetivo da tuberculose no sistema prisionalPrison institutions are known as reservoirs for transmittable diseases, such as tuberculosis. The study aimed to analyze the strategies for the control of tuberculosis in the prison system, trough scientific work. Thus, integrative review was chosen, happening through the search of original scientific articles in the PubMed, Literatura Latino-Americana em Ciências de Saúde, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Alied Health Literature, Web of Science and Scopus databases, including different search strategies using controlled and non-controlled descriptors, selecting articles based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. After the database search using titles and summaries, it was possible to pre-select 33 original scientific articles for this review and, consequent to full reading of those articles, come to a final of 22, which compose the study. Through the reading of such articles it was possible to identify 11 strategies, all aimed to the detection of the disease, and group them into three categories \"Active Case-finding as a strategy for control of tuberculosis\", \"Active Case-finding as a strategy for identifying latent tuberculosis\" and \"Use of image to diagnose tuberculosis\". Through the studies included in this review it\'s possible to make clear that when all strategies are developed as complementary and performed periodically they can provide higher chances of effective control of tuberculosis in the prison system
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Macarthur, Melvyn John. "From Armageddon to Babylon: A sociological religious studies analysis of the decline of the Protestant prison chaplain as an institution with particular reference to the British and New South Wales prisons from the penitentiary to the present time." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/675.
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Prisons have been a both a curiosity and an interest of mine at various times in my life. On occasions in my childhood I drove with my parents past the prison at Long Bay, in Sydney, New South Wales. It was a frightening, but fascinating place. My gaze was fixed on the grounds of the prison, both hoping and fearing to sight an escapee. Later, as a tertiary social work student with an interest in the concept of social control, my thoughts were sometimes focused on the prison. However, it was not until the early part of 1993 that I actually entered a prison. I was then in the final year of my ordinand studies. I had elected, in one of the Field Education components of my studies, to spend time in the Chaplaincy Department of the Long Bay prison in Sydney. The experience was a very significant one in that it was to raise difficult, but fascinating questions for me about the role of religion and the clergy in the prison. During my placement at Long Bay I observed much which strongly suggested that religion and the clergy (chaplains) occupy a peripheral place in the prison system. I was also puzzled by the role of the chaplains, and here I refer to the Protestant chaplains, the only chaplains with whom I had contact. From the perspective of one trained in both social work and theology, it seemed to me that the chaplains were performing many of the same tasks, which one would expect to be performed by the prison welfare staff. In fact it was with difficulty that I could identify anything distinctively 'religious' in the role of the chaplain who, it seemed to me, functioned as something of a quasi welfare professional. It was also very apparent to me that the chaplains had a low profile in the prison; at Long Bay even the chaplaincy offices were outside the prison walls. The chaplains were like exiles, an image which stayed with me long after my placement in the prison had ended. These observations presented a stark contrast to the centrality of religion and the chaplain in the penitentiary, the fledgling prison of the nineteenth century. The chapels in the contemporary prisons, some of which I had seen photographs of, were curiosities. The very prominence and size of the chapel in many of the prisons, both in New South Wales and Britain, many of which were built in the nineteenth century, symbolised the decline of religion from its position of centrality. Religion's function in the contemporary operations and theoretical underpinnings of the prison is marginal by comparison with the penitentiary. The prison chapel is now curiously anachronistic, being used extensively for secular purposes, such as the screening of movies, the holding of various meetings, and sometimes for sports. The liturgical and sacramental functions to which the chapels were dedicated are all but absent, at least for the Protestant chaplains.
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Blasko, Brandy L. "The Uncharted Influence of Prison Staff Decisionmaking." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/218401.
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Although parole boards have discretion and responsibility for deciding if and when prison inmates will be released on parole, previous studies of parole decisionmaking have found that the recommendations made by prison staff weigh heavily in parole decisions. In light of these findings it is surprising that the prison recommendation process has not come under greater scrutiny. What contributes to release recommendations made by prison superintendents, whether those recommendations are influenced by those made by lower level prison staff, and the factors shaping the latter, have not yet been explored by criminal justice scholars. It is the purpose of this research to examine parole release recommendations made at the prison decisionmaking stage. Practices followed by prison staff within one large state prison system as they formulated release recommendations for a random sample of 1610 parole applicants were examined. Of these applicants, 58% were recommended for release by unit management teams that operated on the cell block level. Using multi-level modeling it was possible to take into account characteristics related to applicants and prison staff teams, as well as institutions. Observations of decisionmaking teams and conversations with prison staff supplemented and contributed to the interpretation of quantitative findings. Results showed significant variation across teams and institutions in both the probability of an applicant receiving a positive recommendation for release--even after controlling for applicant and decisionmaking attributes--and in the strength of the influence of one applicant attribute: number of misconducts. A strong concordance also was found between recommendations made by lower level prison staff teams and prison superintendents. The findings have implications for prison and parole policies, the relationship between prison personnel and paroling authorities, prison operational procedures, and the perceptions of people who are incarcerated.
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Buntaine, Olivia G. "Howls on the Heath: Shakespeare Ensembles in American Prisons." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/714.
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This thesis discusses the process and value of theatrical and performance-based rehabilitation programming in prisons, specifically focusing on the non-profit organization Shakespeare Behind Bars (SBB). SBB has programs in two prisons in which they read, rehearse and produce a Shakespeare play annually. Using performance theories, theories of rehabilitation and personal interviews, this thesis aims to develop an understanding of the way culture functions in prisons, how the act of performance changes that functioning, and how these programs effect incarcerated people. This thesis includes analyzed interviews with Curt Tofteland, founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars and Sammie Byron, a previously incarcerated alumnus of the program.
Ultimately, this project focuses on the possibilities for rehabilitation within incarceration and how performance-based rehabilitation programming offers something unique. SBB creates spaces through performance that allow incarcerated people to reflect on their choices and take responsibility for who they want to become. Central to this thesis and the program it analyzes is the idea of story-telling and allowing incarcerated people to have the access and ability to create their own narratives.
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Völker, Faye Tameryn. "Psychological therapy in prisons : professionals' perceptions." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621869.
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Large, Shirley Anne. "HIV and hepatitis prevention in prisons." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/345596/.
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This thesis comprises three studies that explore the attitudes and beliefs of prison staff and prisoners towards HIV and hepatitis B and C prevention policy in prisons. Analysis of the factors that influence the way prisoners and prison staff view prevention strategies highlighted some important issues from the perspective of the people most closely involved with implementation of prevention policy. The exploration of these issues was complex due to the security, legal, cultural and ethical issues that had to be considered. A case study approach incorporating qualitative and quantitative methods was used to try to embrace the complexity of the research aim. A qualitative foundation for staff and prisoner interviews was used for two reasons; firstly, so that the views of the researcher were not imposed and secondly because there were few prior research studies to base the current study on. In addition, as prisons differ in security category and in the types of prisoners held, it was presumed that developing the research to give a wider representation of the issues would be valuable; this overview was achieved by questionnaire. Data were collected from ten prisons, there were fortyone in-depth staff interviews from three types of prisons; data from 182 questionnaires from 7 prisons and 18 in-depth interviews with prisoners from the three prisons where staff were interviewed. The results show that the predominant concern of staff is that the prevention policies discussed in the study are to do with sex and drug misuse; activities considered illegal within the prison environment. Staff believed that some of the prevention measures concerned with reducing the risk associated with injecting drug use conflict with their discipline and security role and also conflict with the drug strategy policies that focus on eradicating drug use in prisons. Opiate detoxification programmes, abstinence based therapeutic programmes and drug-free areas were viewed most positively by staff and were portrayed as most closely aligned to their security and discipline role and the role of prisons in society. Most staff believed that providing condoms in prisons would also act against their discipline and security role. This is principally because of the potential to conceal or smuggle drugs using condoms and also because the stigma of same sex relationships in prisons may lead to aggression and bullying from other prisoners. Prisoners described a hidden culture of same sex relationships in prisons and generally did not completely welcome policies concerned with improved access to condoms. However, some of the prisoners highlighted a moral imperative to distribute condoms in prisons. Prisoners stated that they would view suspiciously any change in prevention policy concerned with injecting drug use, which ran counter to the current policies of intolerance to illicit drug use in prisons.
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Kauffman, Ross M. "Smoking and Tobacco in Ohio Prisons." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243363292.
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Byrne, Karen Lynn. "Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02092007-102016/.
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Clark, Perry R. "Barred Progress: Indiana Prison Reform, 1880-1920." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1637.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.Title from screen (viewed on July 8, 2008). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Robert G. Barrows, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Jason M. Kelly. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-131).
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Soumaré, Manga. "Le système pénitentiaire mauritanien : de la tradition islamique à une esquisse de modernité." Perpignan, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PERP0803.
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Cette recherche s'inscrit dans le contexte d'une prise de conscience des autorités mauritaniennes de l'importance du monde carcéral. Le domaine pénitentiaire fait actuellement l'objet d'un effort sans précédent de codification même s'il reste beaucoup à faire. Ce mouvement de codification a débuté par l'institution d'un nouveau décret 98-078 du 26-octobre 1998 portant organisation et fonctionnement des établissements pénitentiaires. Ce décret a été récemment complété par l'arrêté N° 01524 portant règlement intérieur des centres de rééducation des enfants en conflit avec la loi. Malgré le nombre de textes et les efforts consentis, la prison reste et demeure pour l'opinion publique et même pour l'administration pénitentiaire un lieu de punition. Pour comprendre cette situation, il nous a paru nécessaire de consacrer le chapitre introduction sur l'évolution historique de l'enfermement en Mauritanie. Après avoir dégagé ce chapitre introductif, nous nous sommes interrogés sur les fondements de la politique pénitentiaire dans notre système répressif. Dans cette partie, nous avons étudié comment l'islam, religion commune à tous les mauritaniens, occupe une place singulière dans notre système pénitentiaire. La première partie de ce travail concerne les institutions pénitentiaires. Dans cette partie, deux questions se sont imposées à nous. A savoir comment les détenus sont repartis au sein des différents établissements pénitentiaires et comment l'administration pénitentiaire gère ces détenus. En ce qui concerne les établissements pénitentiaires, il existe essentiellement deux catégories : Les maisons d'arrêt et les établissements pour peines. Quant à la politique pénitentiaire, elle demeure à l'état embryonnaire compte tenu et évolue lentement. Car aujourd'hui l'objectif de réinsertion et de rééducation des détenus est loin d'être atteint. La seconde partie de ce travail est consacrée à l'univers pénitentiaire. Dans cette partie nous avons étudié la démographie pénitentiaire. Ce qui nous a permet de faire une étude sociologique des détenus. Quant à la seconde partie, elle a été consacrée aux différents régimes de détention et leur limite. Même si les textes font une distinction entre les différentes catégories de détenus, la réalité carcérale tend vers la négation de toute différence fondamentaleThis research is written in the context of the Mauritanian authorities becoming aware of the importance of the world’s prison population. The subject incarceration is, today, the target of a un recedented effort to be codified, even though there remains much to be done. This movement of codification started with the establishment of a new decree, 98-078, of October 26th 1998, pertaining to the organisation and running of penitentiary institutions. This decree has been recontly completed by order number 01524 regarding the rules of re-education schools for children in trouble with the law. Despite the number of texts and efforts that were agreed upon, prison remains, in public opinion, and even for penitentiary administration, a place of punishment. In order to understand this situation, it seems necessary to dedicate the introductory chapter to the evolutionary history of incarceration in Mauritania. Once we have cleared this introductory chapter, we consider the foundations of penitentiary policy in our repressive. In this section, we studied how Islam, a religion common to all Mauritanians, occupies a unique place in our penitentiary system. The first part of this work concerns penitentiary institutions. In this part, two questions arise: to know how those arrested are spread throughout the different penitentiary establishments and how the penitentiary administration handles these detainees. As far as penitentiary establishments are concerned, there exists, essentially, two categories: prison and detention centres. Regarding penitentiary policy, it remains in an embryonic state, on account of its slow evolution. For today the objective of rehabilitation and re-education of the detainees is far from being attained. The second part of this work is dedicated to the penitentiary world. In this part we have studied penitentiary demography. This allows us to make a sociological study of the detainees. As far as the second part is concerned, it is dedicated to the different systems of detention and to their limits. Even though the texts make a distinction between the different categories of detainees, the reality of prison indicates an absence of any fundamental difference
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Whitfield, Joseph Michael. "Punitive cultures of Latin America : power, resistance, and the state in representations of the prison." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708874.
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Thoms, Ulrike. "Anstaltskost im Rationalisierungsprozess : die Ernährung in Krankenhäusern und Gefängnissen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400256807.
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