Prisons and Their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life book by Alison Liebling, Helen Arnold

Alison Liebling, Helen Arnold

ISBN 10: 0199271224 / ISBN 13: 9780199271221

Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> 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 project that went wrong. A significant contribu-tory 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. Related to this, official measures of the prison seem to lack rele-vance to many who live and work in prison and to its critics. The information 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prisons and Their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life book by Alison Liebling, Helen Arnold
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199271224
• ISBN 13: 9780199271221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alison Liebling is a University Lecturer and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology. She is also a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Helen Arnold is at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.