Prisons and their Moral Performance
A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 May 2004
- ISBN 9780199271221
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages584 pages
- Size 224x147x35 mm
- Weight 828 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 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 finds significant differences between establishments in these areas of prison life, and some departures from the official vision of the prison supported by the performance framework.
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 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 the impact of this concept of performance and the links apparently forged between managerialism and moral values.
...this book has produced a tool that is already making a real difference ... there is no doubt that this is a major achievement. ... Ultimately it is the real-life impact of this book ... which is likely to confirm Liebling's place in the prison and academic communities.
Table of Contents:
PART 1: INTRODUCTION: PENAL VALUES AND PRISON EVALUATION
1. The Late Modern Prison and The Question of Values
2. The Measurement and Evaluation of Prison Regimes
Identifying 'What Matters' in Prison
Particular Prisons and Their Qualities
PART 2: THE MEANING AND MEASUREMENT OF KEY DIMENSIONS OF PRISON LIFE
Relationship Dimensions: Respect, Humanity, Trust, Relationships, and Support
Regime Dimensions: Fairness, Order, Safety, Well-Being, Personal Development, Family Contact, and Decency
Social Structure and Other Dimensions: Power, Prisoner Social Life, Meaning, and Quality of Life
PART 3: PENAL VALUES AND PRISON MANAGEMENT
Managing Modern Prisons and their Performance
Security, Harmony, and 'What Matters' in Prison Life
Legitimacy, Decency, and the Moral Performance of Prisons
