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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Prison officers"”.
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
Female prison officers have an important role to play in the lives of the imprisoned women they are charged with ‘looking after’. This thesis draws upon 64 days of research, over 35 weeks, over a 12-month period to produce a unique ethnographic study of female frontline officers responsible for …
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Causes and effects of physical injuries to Prison Officers employed in a high risk and high need offender management environment in Western Australia
Prison Officers (POs) involved in high need offender management frequently face risks that could affect their health, safety and wellbeing. Several studies have shown that direct client centred violence, inadequate management systems and the general nature of prison environments are major factors …
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Imprisonment in Thailand: The Impact of the 2003 War on Drugs Policy
… the impact of the 2003 war on drugs policy on imprisonment and the prison social world in Thailand. While most studies on the drugs war have focused mainly on the quantitative increase in the prison population in the penal systems as the policy’s main impact, this research further examined the …
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Imagining Modernity in the Uganda Prisons Service, 1945-1979
… dissertation is a social history of the Uganda Prisons Service in the late colonial and early post-colonial periods. Focusing particularly on prison officers, it advances four key arguments. Firstly, it argues that global visions of the prison were crucial in shaping the Service’s development, …
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Prisoners' Use of Social Support
Manuscript 1: It is generally acknowledged that prison is often a stressful environment, yet little is known of the coping processes employed by prisoners. This paper aims to examine the question of what facilitates and frustrates prisoners' use of social support whilst imprisoned. This question is …
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Punishment and Violence in Organisation Studies
… gathered from a twelve-month ethnography of prison officers, it theorizes that the empowerment these workers gain from using discretion outweighs the risk of managerial discipline they knowingly incur through its use. From the same empirical study of prison officers, the third paper …
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Multidisciplinary rehabilitation in prison : a values, interests and power analysis
… of offenders alone does little to rehabilitate prisoners. As a result, it has implemented additional therapeutic programs within prisons. This has resulted in an influx of therapists into prisons and created two distinct work groups with no historical working culture. As research suggests that …
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The role of the prison officer in Scotland and Norway, and the extent to which they impact the lives of prisoners
Until recently, prison officers have tended to be neglected in research. While they are now receiving attention, little research exists in relation to prison officer training, particularly in Scotland. Scotland tend to look to Scandinavia when implementing change within the prison service and …
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Strategic Analysis of the Swedish Prison & Probation Service
… examines the strategic analysis of the Swedish Prison & Probation Service, and how it is perceived by employees at Kumla Prison. The strategic analysis was conducted by examining and comparing official information to a strategic framework by Steinþórsson (2003b), based on four dimensions; …
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Language as a means of social control and resistance: discourse analysis in a prison setting
… programme for offenders which was run at Prison X in 1996. Several Cognitive Skills classes run by prison officers and attended by groups of five to eight prisoners were videotaped and analysed to investigate the discourse practices used in these sessions. I also explored the written …
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Legal interpreting in the criminal system: an exploratory study.
… clerks to the justices, magistrates, probation officers, police officers, prison officers, immigration officers and immigration advisory service officers, 186 number in total. Methods: a qualitative method of enquiry is adopted with questionnaires sent to the above categories, which formed the …
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Psichosocialinių rizikos veiksnių darbe, streso ir optimizmo reikšmė teisėsaugos darbuotojų gerovei /
… personnel were interviewed - 79 police officers (61,72 %), 7 prison officers (5,47 %) and 42 probation officers (32,81 %). Demographic data showed that 39 males (30,47 %) and 89 females (69,53 %) participated in the study. The age of the study participants ranged from 21 to 65 years, …
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Adaptation, Moral Community and Power in a Prison for Men Convicted of Sex Offences
This thesis explores the experiences of imprisonment of men held in HMP Stafford, an English medium-security prison for men convicted of sexual offences. Sex offenders constitute a significant proportion of the prison population – almost one in five sentenced adult men have been convicted of a sex …
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The prison and the city: A tale of two cultures
… the working lives and experiences of uniformed prison staff at HMP Pentonville and HMP Hull – two inner-city Victorian local prisons in England. It examines the meaning and role of place in the narratives of prison staff at work in two (distinct yet similar) prisons within the late modern penal …
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Organizações criminosas nas prisões da Bahia: um estudo sob a ótica dos protagonistas da gestão prisional na RMS
… sources related to criminal organizations and prisons, as well as documents and data from the Brazilian National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN) Information System and the Bahia State Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration and Resocialization (SEAP), this study characterizes the Bahia …
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Improving the Institutional Behaviour of Prisoners: Challenges and Opportunities for Behaviour Analysis
Prisoner misconduct presents a significant issue to correctional administrators, disrupting the orderly running of regimes, endangering safety, and negatively impacting the health and well-being of both prisoners and frontline staff. While an extensive literature has emerged around rehabilitative …