Prisons and their Moral Performance (Hardcover)

Alison Liebling

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004

0199271224 / 9780199271221

Série : Livre 19 sur 85 - Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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Hardcover. This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons.Penal practices, values, and sensibilities have undergone important transformations over the period 1990-2003. Part of this transformation included a serious flirtation with a liberal penal projectthat went wrong. A significant factor in this unfortunate turn of events was a lack of clarity, by those working in and managing prisons, about important terms such as 'justice', 'liberal', and 'care',and how they might apply to daily penal life. Official measures of the prison seem to lack relevance to many who live and work in prison and to their critics. The author proposes that a truer test of the quality of prison life is what staff and prisoners have to say about those aspects of prison life that 'matter most': relationships, fairness, order, and the quality of their treatment. The book attempts a detailed analysis and measurement of these dimensions in five prisons. It findssignificant differences between establishments in these areas of prison life, and some departures from the official vision of the prison supported by the performance framework.Theinformation revolution has generated unprecedented levels of knowledge about individual prisons, as well as providing a management reach into establishments from a distance, and a capacity for 'chronic revision', that was unimaginable fifty years ago. Another major transformation - the modernisation project - brought with it a new, but flawed, 'craft' of performance monitoring and measurement aimed at solving some of the problems of prison management. This book explores the arrival and theimpact of this concept of performance and the links apparently forged between managerialism and moral values. This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons. The authors call for greater clarity and increased attention to these important aspects of organizational life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

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Titre
Prisons and their Moral Performance (Hardcover)
Auteur
Alison Liebling
Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Année de publication
2004
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0199271224
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780199271221
Série
Livre 19 sur 85: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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