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Understanding Prison Staff
This book will provide practitioners, students and the general reader with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the contemporary issues and concerns facing prison staff.
Edge of the Sublime
A beautifully illustrated catalogue of over 100 color plates, it addresses artist's lifework who first established his international reputation in 1986 when he produced enameled jewelry using unique, electroformed shapes.
Jamie Bennett
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Prisoners on Prison Films
This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this affects people in prison. The book explains the ways in which film acts as a power resource, presenting an ideological vision of criminal justice. The audience used these films to map the social terrain of prison, including issues of power and resistance; race and racism; corruption and the illicit economy; and staff-prisoner relationships, themes which are explored in the films screened. The authors argue that media consumpt...
The Working Lives of Prison Managers
This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England. It explores how globalised changes, in particular managerialism, have intersected with local occupational cultures, positioning managers as micro-agents in the relationship between the global and local that characterises late modernity. The Working Lives of Prison Managers addresses key aspects of prison management, including how individuals become prison managers, their engagement with elements of traditional occupational culture, and the impact of the 'age of austerity'. It offers a particular focus on performance monitoring mechanisms such as indicators, audits and inspections, and how these intersect with local culture and individual identity. The book also examines important aspects of individual agency, including values, discretion, resistance and the use of power. It also reveals the 'hidden injuries' of contemporary prison managerialism, especially the distinctive effects experienced by women and members of minority ethnic groups.
I Love You Better
Evie is doing just fine, thank you very much! Everything is great, practically perfect, really--until, POOF! Evie's life turns upside down and suddenly, she's more than the fun party-girl she has been all her life. She has responsibilities. Commitments. Out of the blue, she's the one people depend on, and the transition isn't the smoothest. And not that anything is easier when she has to deal on a daily basis with Heath Baldwin, who has a stick up...anyway, he's a little starchy. If he could relax a little, maybe they would get along. If he could just see Evie as something other than a screw-up who needs to be watched, a user with nothing on her mind but what she can get out of him, things would be a lot better. Maybe everyone needs a little work, because if Evie could open her mind to new possibilities, and Heath could open his heart to new love, maybe they could make their unexpected situation a success. Maybe it could become something more than either of them ever expected...
The Prisoner
Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned. The Prisoner aims to redress this by foregrounding prisoners’ own accounts of prison life in what is an original and penetrating edited collection. Each of its chapters explores a particular prisoner sub-group or an important aspect of prisoners’ lives, and each is divided into two sections: extended extracts from interviews with prisoners, followed by ...
Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment
Covers the rapidly developing and increasingly professionalized field of contemporary prison practice with its increased emphasis on skills and qualifications and its new set of ideas and concepts.
What We Know Is True
"Reid McGrath is going to see me naked. Who would have thought it?"Polar opposites. Karis and Reid are nothing alike. Where she calculates risks, he takes them. When she looks, he leaps--literally.But somehow, they do work well together--better than well, because oddly, they seem to complement each other. They're great work colleagues. They're great friends.Could they be great at something more? Can Reid give up roaming around the world, looking for adventure? Can Karis let go of her control a little, to take a chance?Sometimes, your happy ending can't be planned, coordinated, and calculated...but it's there, if you can let go and reach for it!
