04782nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-74849-3 DE-He213 20251030113303.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241108s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031748493 978-3-031-74849-3 10.1007/978-3-031-74849-3 doi HV8301-9920.7 JKVP bicssc SOC004000 bisacsh JKVP thema Bennett, Jamie. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87187 Managing Prisons [electronic resource] : Managerialism, Austerity and Moral Blindness / by Jamie Bennett. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 141 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612 -- 1. Introduction: Prisons and managerialism in a new century -- 2. The rise of prison managerialism -- 3. Prison managerialism in the age of austerity -- 4. Reforming managerialism -- 5. Pandemic and the disruption of managerialism -- 6. Conclusion: Prison Managerialism and future directions. “Focusing on key issues such as austerity, the reform prison and the Covid-19 pandemic, the book outlines periods of time when prison managers have been allowed to exercise local autonomy but also when the centre has asserted managerial claw-back. It is an excellent contribution to the literature.” -Professor Karen Harrison, Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, UK “This will be invaluable to practitioners, academics and observers of our prisons.” -Tom Wheatley, President of the Prison Governors’ Association, UK. This book critiques the practices of managerialism and their effects on those who live and work in prisons. It draws upon ethnographic research conducted in English prisons over a 15 year period, written by a former prison governor. Since the last years of the 20th century, public services in England have increasingly adopted managerial approaches with an architecture of target setting, surveillance and assertive line management. The book examines how this system was created and then evolved during the period of austerity after 2010 and was disrupted during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020-22. It proposes an alternative approach, re-energising the agency of prison managers, reinvigorating a more localised approach, and developing measures that address the lived experience of people in prison. This book will be of particular relevance to prison managers and policy makers, researchers interested in criminology, the sociology of prisons, and the sociology of work, as well as to post-graduate students exploring prison work. Jamie Bennett has worked in prisons and the criminal justice system since 1996. He was governor of four prisons including: HMP Grendon, the only prison to operate entirely as a series of therapeutic communities; HMP Long Lartin, a high security prison; HMP Springhill, an innovative open prison helping men prepare for resettlement into the community, and; HMP Morton Hall, a women’s prison working with a diverse international population. He was also head of operational security for prisons in England and Wales and Chief Operating Officer of the Youth Justice Board. In addition, he is a Research Associate at University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow at University of Edinburgh. Corrections. 67953 Punishment. 60199 Crime Sociological aspects. 58247 School management and organization. 60047 School administration. Human rights. 58427 Identity politics. Prison and Punishment. 67955 Crime and Society. Organization and Leadership. Politics and Human Rights. 67284 Identity Politics. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031748486 Printed edition: 9783031748509 Printed edition: 9783031748516 Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612 67957 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74849-3 ZDB-2-LCR ZDB-2-SXLC 64797 64797