Prisons in UK Law
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Groupwork in Prisons
Following an earlier pilot study of 32 prisons which showed that probation officers were participating in more prison groupwork than any other single professional group, Graham Towl, Head of Forens...
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Groupwork in Prisons
Graham Towl, Head of Forensic Psychology at Highpoint Prison, conducted a pilot survey in 1991 to establish what group-work is being undertaken and by whom. Twenty-seven prison psychology units cov...
- Privatising Prisons
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Gangs in New Zealand Prisons*
Gangs became a permanent feature of New Zealand prisons during the 1980s. Surveys indicate that more than 20% of inmates have past or present gang affiliations. This article looks at the gang pheno...
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Barter in Russian Prisons
This article discusses findings from research in Russian prison colonies. There has been a decline in central government funding of prisons in Russia since the collapse ...
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Legitimacy, accountability and private prisons
HMP Dovegate, which opened in 2001, is one of the latest in what is fast becoming a long line of privately managed prisons. But Dovegate is no ordinary prison: within its walls it accommodates a th...
- Book Review: Prisons
- Why prisons are not “The New Asylums”
- Aids education in new south Wales prisons*
- Minority gangs in Singapore prisons: Prisonisation revisited
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