Prisons in UK Law

  • Groupwork in Prisons
    • No. 40-4, December 1993
    • Probation Journal
    • 0000
    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...
  • Groupwork in Prisons
    • No. 40-1, March 1993
    • Probation Journal
    • 0000
    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
    • No. 1-1, January 1986
    • Public Policy and Administration
    • 0000
  • Barter in Russian Prisons
    • No. 1-1, January 2004
    • European Journal of Criminology
    • 0000
    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 ...
  • Gangs in New Zealand Prisons*
    • No. 25-3, December 1992
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    • 0000
    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...
  • Legitimacy, accountability and private prisons
    • No. 4-3, July 2002
    • Punishment & Society
    • 0000
    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
    • No. 1-4, December 1968
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    • 0000
  • Why prisons are not “The New Asylums”
    • No. 19-3, July 2017
    • Punishment & Society
    • 0000
  • Aids education in new south Wales prisons*
    • No. 23-3, September 1990
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    • 0000
  • The ‘dangerous other’ in maximum-security prisons
    • No. 11-4, September 2011
    • Criminology & Criminal Justice
    • 0000
    Drawing on data from maximum-security prisons in England, this article explores the way the representation of criminals as ‘dangerous others’ manifests in prison discourse and practice. Following B...
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