Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training / Edition 1

by Frances H. Simon

Overview

Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few studies have focused on the nature of prison work, prisoners' experience of it, and the extent to which it meets the need of rehabilitating prisoners.
Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training sheds new light on this crucial area in the work of prisons and examines:
*the nature of training received by prisoners
*the actual work they undertake
*how this relates to the world or work outside
*the role it plays in helping to secure employment on release.
Frances Simon employs a balance of qualitative and quantitative data, including first hand accounts from UK prisons, gathered during field research. Her book will be essential reading for all those studying criminology and prison studies and all professionals working with prisoners, including probation officers and social workers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415146760
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/25/1999
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frances Simon has worked as a researcher in the New Zealand Justice Department, the Home Office, NACRO and the Department of Law at Brunel University. She is the author of Prediction Methods in Criminology, which won a prize from the International Society of Criminology, and is co-author of Unemployment, Crime and Offenders and Training Young Offenders.

Table of Contents

Preface 1 Introduction, Purpose and scope of this book, A short history of prison work, The Woolf Report and after, Recent major changes, The Brunel study, Plan of the book 2 Six prisons 3 Pictures of prison work, and comparisons with outside 4 General features of prison work 5 Vocational training in prisons 6 Sink, float or swim: release from prison 7 The challenge ahead