Understanding Prisons: Key Issues in Policy and Practice: The Place of the Prision in a Modern Society (Crime & Justice) - Softcover

Coyle, Andrew

 
9780335213382: Understanding Prisons: Key Issues in Policy and Practice: The Place of the Prision in a Modern Society (Crime & Justice)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0335213383 ISBN 13: 9780335213382
Verlag: Open University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Few people can talk about prisons with the authority and experience that Andrew Coyle brings to his subject. A former prison governor, an academic author, an international activist and a practical reformer, Professor Coyle knows prisons inside and out, home and abroad, past and present. In Understanding Prisons he uses his impressive expertise to guide researchers through the changing world of the English prison. The result is an accessible, up-to-date, and highly informative book that will be welcomed by students and practitioners alike. - David Garland, NYU, author of The Culture of Control. Andrew Coyle has drawn on his lifelong experience of governing prisons in Scotland and England and, as the former Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London, studying prisons worldwide. He has written a comprehensive account of the use of imprisonment and the character of prisons.

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Andrew Coyle is Professor of Prison Studies in the International Centre for Prison Studies in the School of Law, Kings College, University of London. He worked for 25 years at a senior level in the prison services of the United Kingdom. While in the Scottish Prison Service he was Governor of Greenock, Peterhead and Shotts Prisons. Between 1991 and 1997 he was Governor of Brixton Prison in London.

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Verlag
Open University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0335213383
ISBN 13 
9780335213382
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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