Elaine Genders
Biographic Data
| ID | 253793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Genders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Genders |
| SIGNATURE | GENDERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Long sentenced women prisoners: Rights, risks and rehabilitation
This paper re-examines critically the role of rehabilitative interventions for a seriously neglected group of prisoners: women serving long sentences. Drawing on empirical research conducted in a democratic therapeutic community in a women’s prison in the south of England, it considers how far established criticisms identify insuperable difficulties that exacerbate existing harms and inequalities. It argues that evidence can be adduced to support…
Rehabilitation, risk management and prisoners’ rights
The expansion of prison treatment programmes for personality disordered offenders as part of the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ in England and Wales raises significant questions about the ways in which inherent concepts of risks, rights and rehabilitation are selectively perceived and employed. Current policy supports rehabilitative opportunities that address the risks offenders pose to the public, yet remains inattentive to the risk of harm that re…
Therapy in Prison: Revisiting Grendon 20 Years On
Twenty years ago we conducted an ethnographic study of Grendon in which we examined the incongruous cohabitation of a prison and a therapeutic community (TC) within a single establishment. We concluded that the partnership between the two institutions was inevitably unequal and that, whilst the prison allowed the TC a sphere of influence, penal power prevailed whenever its institutional interests were threatened. In 2010 we revisited the establis…
Privatisation and Innovation — Rhetoric and Reality: The Development of a Therapeutic Community Prison
Privatisation is here to stay, albeit under the rhetorical guise of public‐private partnership. All new prisons are now provided by means of competition. The recent issuing to potential contractors of the invitation to tender, and award of contract to Premier Prisons, for the DCMF (design, construction, management and finance) of the first purpose built therapeutic community prison HMP Dovegate (opened in November 2001) illustrates well some of t…
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 therapeutic community for 200 prisoners. This development calls for a critical appraisal of the predominant view that privatization seals the demise of the rehabilitative ideal (Beyens and Snacken, 1994), and a re-examination of the argument that it const…
Grendon: A Study of a Therapeutic Prison
Grendon Prison opened in 1962, originally intended to investigate and treat prisoners whose crimes had recognisable psychiatric causes. Thirty years later, its radical ideas of the rehabilitation of prisoners through psychological or psychotherapeutic treatment have been embraced by the Woolf Report, which clearly committed the Prison Service to a rehabilitation ambition. Based upon interviews with prisoners and prison staff, this new study of a …
Race Relations in Prisons
Race Relations in Prisons
Women's Imprisonment
Throughout this paper we have argued and attempted to demonstrate that the changes which the youth custody legislation have created within female prisons are fundamentally different to those incurred in the male system. The justification and rationale for this development have not been made explicit and the assumptions about the social worlds of women's prisons, which are implied by the policy of age-mixing, have not been substantiated by empiric…
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 therapeutic community for 200 prisoners. This development calls for a critical appraisal of the predominant view that privatization seals the demise of the rehabilitative ideal (Beyens and Snacken, 1994), and a re-examination of the argument that it const…
Rehabilitation, risk management and prisoners’ rights
The expansion of prison treatment programmes for personality disordered offenders as part of the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ in England and Wales raises significant questions about the ways in which inherent concepts of risks, rights and rehabilitation are selectively perceived and employed. Current policy supports rehabilitative opportunities that address the risks offenders pose to the public, yet remains inattentive to the risk of harm that re…
Long sentenced women prisoners: Rights, risks and rehabilitation
This paper re-examines critically the role of rehabilitative interventions for a seriously neglected group of prisoners: women serving long sentences. Drawing on empirical research conducted in a democratic therapeutic community in a women’s prison in the south of England, it considers how far established criticisms identify insuperable difficulties that exacerbate existing harms and inequalities. It argues that evidence can be adduced to support…
Women's Imprisonment
Throughout this paper we have argued and attempted to demonstrate that the changes which the youth custody legislation have created within female prisons are fundamentally different to those incurred in the male system. The justification and rationale for this development have not been made explicit and the assumptions about the social worlds of women's prisons, which are implied by the policy of age-mixing, have not been substantiated by empiric…
Women's Imprisonment
Throughout this paper we have argued and attempted to demonstrate that the changes which the youth custody legislation have created within female prisons are fundamentally different to those incurred in the male system. The justification and rationale for this development have not been made explicit and the assumptions about the social worlds of women's prisons, which are implied by the policy of age-mixing, have not been substantiated by empiric…
Race Relations in Prisons
Race Relations in Prisons
Grendon: A Study of a Therapeutic Prison
Grendon Prison opened in 1962, originally intended to investigate and treat prisoners whose crimes had recognisable psychiatric causes. Thirty years later, its radical ideas of the rehabilitation of prisoners through psychological or psychotherapeutic treatment have been embraced by the Woolf Report, which clearly committed the Prison Service to a rehabilitation ambition. Based upon interviews with prisoners and prison staff, this new study of a …
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 therapeutic community for 200 prisoners. This development calls for a critical appraisal of the predominant view that privatization seals the demise of the rehabilitative ideal (Beyens and Snacken, 1994), and a re-examination of the argument that it const…
Privatisation and Innovation — Rhetoric and Reality: The Development of a Therapeutic Community Prison
Privatisation is here to stay, albeit under the rhetorical guise of public‐private partnership. All new prisons are now provided by means of competition. The recent issuing to potential contractors of the invitation to tender, and award of contract to Premier Prisons, for the DCMF (design, construction, management and finance) of the first purpose built therapeutic community prison HMP Dovegate (opened in November 2001) illustrates well some of t…
Therapy in Prison: Revisiting Grendon 20 Years On
Twenty years ago we conducted an ethnographic study of Grendon in which we examined the incongruous cohabitation of a prison and a therapeutic community (TC) within a single establishment. We concluded that the partnership between the two institutions was inevitably unequal and that, whilst the prison allowed the TC a sphere of influence, penal power prevailed whenever its institutional interests were threatened. In 2010 we revisited the establis…
Rehabilitation, risk management and prisoners’ rights
The expansion of prison treatment programmes for personality disordered offenders as part of the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ in England and Wales raises significant questions about the ways in which inherent concepts of risks, rights and rehabilitation are selectively perceived and employed. Current policy supports rehabilitative opportunities that address the risks offenders pose to the public, yet remains inattentive to the risk of harm that re…
Long sentenced women prisoners: Rights, risks and rehabilitation
This paper re-examines critically the role of rehabilitative interventions for a seriously neglected group of prisoners: women serving long sentences. Drawing on empirical research conducted in a democratic therapeutic community in a women’s prison in the south of England, it considers how far established criticisms identify insuperable difficulties that exacerbate existing harms and inequalities. It argues that evidence can be adduced to support…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Prison (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)