Kimmett Edgar Libri

Leading edge information and ideas from two of the UK's most respected practitioners and authorities. A handbook for people who want to make a difference when working with prisoners. It suggests the tools for this and offers guidance - and is wholly up to speed with what is happening in UK prisons. * Essential reading for every RJ practitioner and student * One of the most important penal reform books for years - Part of a major initiative across UK prisons * Designed to be used in conjunction with the free toolkits available for download from www.WatersidePress.co.uk/RJTools Restorative Justice in Prisons was launched at Brixton Prison in 2006. Prison as an institution is sometimes taken to represent the opposite of restorative justice. The culture of prisons includes coercion, highly structured and controlled regimes, banishment achieved through physical separation, and blame and punishment - whereas restorative justice values empowerment, voluntarism, respect, and treating people as individuals. Recent developments in some prisons demonstrate a far more welcoming environment for restorative work. Examples such as reaching out to victims of crime, providing prisoners with a range of opportunities to make amends and experimenting with mediation in response to conflicts within prisons show that it is possible to implement restorative justice principles in everyday prison activities. Guided by restorative justice, prisons can become places of healing and personal transformation, serving the community as well as those directly affected by crime: victims and offenders. This new book advocates the further expansion of restorative justice in prisons. Building on a widespread interest in the concept and its potential, the authors have produced a guide to enable prisons and the practitioners who work in and with them to translate the theory into action. Reviews 'This book is evidence that restorative approaches have much to offer the prison services in seeking to make their operations effective in meeting prisoner and public needs ... It successfully translates theory into practice and provides a model for organisational and cultural change in prisons': International Review of Victimology 'What strikes you as you read through this text is the sheer simplicity with which Edgar and Newell have captured the changes that are so apparently needed in the prison system today': Andy Bain, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Erwin JamesCHAPTER1. Introduction and BackgroundDefining restorative justiceVarieties of restorative practicesEmpowerment and particularityWhat is, and is not, restorative justice?Restorative justice and criminal justice in the UKRestorative justice and prisonsConclusion2. Restorative ValuesThe core values of restorative justiceProgramme integrityPressure points in the definitionParadigm shift or evolution?3. Organizational CultureIntroducing restorative culture into prisons 38 Organizational cultureThe cultural web of prisonsRestorative influences on the cultural webA restorative system of building social order4. Resistance to ChangeConflicting paradigmsWhat matters in prisonValues, restorative justice and conflictSocial order in prisonValues inherent in Prison Service policiesCultural resistance within the policeA model for the restorative prison5. What a Restorative Justice Prison WouldLook LikeThe foundations of a restorative prisonOperational applications of restorative justicePre-release, anti-bullying and complaintsConclusion6. The Restorative SentenceResponsibility in sentencingThe responsible sentenceSome further thoughtsPrisons, restoring offenders and the harms of social exclusionNational Action Plan to Reduce Re-offendingThe role of the prison officerPromoting social re-inclusionComments on the Action Plan7. ConclusionGuidance for criminal justice agenciesExperience of restorative methods in prisonsNext stepsAppendix: Two Case StudiesGlossary of TermsReferencesIndexList of Diagrams, Figures, Tables and Boxes

Focusing on the often-overlooked violence within prisons, this book introduces a conflict-centered approach to understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and institutional relationships that contribute to such incidents. By shifting the emphasis from individual psychological factors to the broader context of prison environments, it aims to enhance the understanding of how and why violence occurs among inmates, offering new insights into the complexities of penal institutions.

"Prison Life offers a fresh appreciation of how people in prison organize their lives, drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe and the US. The book describes how order is maintained, how power is exercised, how days are spent, and how meaning is found in a variety of environments that all have the same function - incarceration - but discharge it very differently. It is based on an unusually diverse range of sources including photographs, drawings, court cases, official reports, memoirs, and site visits. Ian O'Donnell contrasts the soul-destroying isolation of the federal supermax in Florence, Colorado with the crowded conviviality of an Ethiopian prison where men and women cook their own meals, seek opportunities to generate an income, elect a leadership team, and live according to a code of conduct that they devised and enforce. He explores life on wings controlled by the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland's H Blocks, where men who saw the actions that led to their incarceration as politically-motivated moved as one, in perpetual defiance of the authorities. He shows how prisoners in Texas took to the courts to overthrow a regime that allowed their routine subjugation by violent men known as building tenders, who had been selected by staff to supervise and discipline their peers. In each case study O'Donnell presents the life story of a man who was molded by, and in return molded, the institution that held him. This ensures that his reflections on law and policy as well as on theory and practice never lose sight of the human angle. Imprisonment is about pain after all, and pain is personal"--Publisher's website