| Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot Contributor(s): Player, Elaine (Editor), Jenkins, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041507956X ISBN-13: 9780415079563 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1993 Annotation: b /b b i Prisons After Woolf /i /b examines the numerous crises prisons have experienced in the past few years. These problems range from rapidly expanding prison populations, to deteriorating conditions, to an increase in the number of riots by prisoners. In this book, contributors not only discuss these issues, but do so in the context of the Woolf proposals of 1990, the results of Lord Justice Woolf's inquiry into the riots at Strangeways prision in Manchester. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Penology - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 365.709 |
| LCCN: 93014816 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.29 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the past few years prisons have attracted much media attention, due to substantial increases in the prison population and the deteriorating conditions in which prisoners are held. In addition, there has been industrial action by prison officers and a series of disturbances and riots by prisoners. Following the riot at Strangeways prison in Manchester in 1990 Lord Justice Woolf was called to conduct an inquiry into the riots and their causes. Prisons After Woolf serves as a basic source of information on prison issues and reviews them in the light of the Woolf proposals. In so doing, its contributors, drawn from all areas of the legal and prison system, present an important broad perspective on the major questions in penology today. |