Abrams / Hughes / Inderbitzin The Voluntary Sector in Prisons

Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-54215-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 374 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

This volume examines how volunteers and non-profit programs encourage institutional change in prisons and offer individual support and services to people who are housed behind bars. Through a diverse set of chapters, including two that are co-written by current prisoners, the volume spans the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and juvenile and adult facilities. The book showcases the exciting, groundbreaking, and yet often unrecognized work that the voluntary sector provides in correctional settings. Collectively, the chapters highlight beneficial practices while raising critical questions about the role of the voluntary sector in prison and reentry settings. The chapters also offer useful information about how to implement innovative prison programs that promote health, education, and peer support.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abrams, Laura S.

Hughes, Emma

Inderbitzin, Michelle

Meek, Rosie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Background.-  Chapter One  Introduction The Significance of Voluntary Sector Provision in Correctional Settings  Laura S. Abrams, Emma Hughes, Rosie Meek, Michelle Inderbitzin.- Chapter Two  Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Programs in Prisons and Jails: Perspectives from England and the United States  Emma Hughes.-  Part II: Prisoners as Volunteers.-  Chapter Three.-  Learning and Practicing Citizenship and Democracy Behind Bars  Michelle Inderbitzin, Joshua Cain, and Trevor Walraven.- Chapter Four  Leading by Example: Ways that Prisoners Give Back to their Communities  Michelle Inderbitzin, Trevor Walraven, and James Anderson.- Chapter Five  Movements Towards Desistance Via Peer-Support Roles in Prison  Christian Perrin and Nicholas Blagden.- Chapter Six  The Development of a Peer-Based Approach for Promoting Prisoner Health in an English Male Young Offender Institution  Anita Mehay and Rosie Meek.-  Part III: The Non-Profit Sector and Prison Culture: Interactions, Boundaries, and Opportunities.- Chapter Seven.- The Involvement of Nonprofit Organizations in Prisoner Reentry in the UK: Prisoner Awareness and Engagement  Rosie Meek, Dina Gojkovic and Alice Mills.- Chapter Eight  Carceral Devolution and the Transformation of Urban America  Reuben Miller and Gwendolyn Purifoye.- Chapter Nine  From Ex-Offender to New Contributor: An Examination of How a Community-Based Reentry Program Addresses Racial Barriers to Employment.-  Charles H. Lea III and Laura S. Abrams.- Chapter Ten  Penal Assemblages: Governing Youth In The Penal Voluntary Sector  Abigail Salole.-  Part IV: Supporting the Supporters: The Voices of Volunteers.-  Chapter Eleven  “Volunteers Welcome, thatis, Some Volunteers”: Experiences Teaching College Courses at a Women’s Prison  Kristenne M. Robison.- Chapter Twelve  Crossing The Color Line into America’s Prisons: Volunteers of Color Reflect on Race and Identity in a College Service Learning Project  Jennifer R. Tilton.- Chapter Thirteen  Developing Self-Care Strategies for Volunteers in a Prison Writing Program Tobi Jacobi and Lara Rose Roberts.

Über Autor(innen)

Laura S. Abrams is Professor of Social Welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, California, USA. She is the author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (2013) and Life After Juvie: Young Men and Women on Desistance, Survival, and Becoming an Adult (forthcoming).  Emma Hughes is Associate Professor of Criminology at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of the book Education in Prison: Studying through Distance Learning (2012). She has contributed book chapters on offender rehabilitation to edited volumes and previously lectured at Birmingham City University, UK.  Michelle Inderbitzin is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA. She is the lead author of the books Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective (2013) and Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (2015). Rosie Meek is Professor, Chartered Psychologist, and Head of the Law School at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She is the author of Sport in Prison (2014) and is a Fulbright distinguished scholar, University of California, San Diego, USA.