Elaine Player
Biographic Data
| ID | 253794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Player |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Player |
| SIGNATURE | PLAYER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5624-9591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| 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…
Pleading Guilty: Why Vulnerability Matters
This article examines the Sentencing Council's recent definitive guideline on what reductions in sentence can be offered for a guilty plea. We argue that its emphasis on facilitating early guilty pleas represents more than just an incentive to those intending to plead guilty and poses significant risks for defendants with vulnerabilities. The article questions whether the guideline can amount to an inducement to plead guilty which places uneven b…
The offender personality disorder pathway and its implications for women prisoners in England and Wales
This article examines how the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway has been tailored to deliver services to a relatively wide population of women prisoners, despite the fact that few of them meet the dangerousness criteria that determine access for men. Although women in custody have a well-established claim to resources that address their mental health needs, there are legitimate concerns about programmes that foster individualised and ‘patholo…
Women in the criminal justice system: The triumph of inertia
This article explores why the government strategy for women offenders has failed to achieve its key objectives despite extensive agreement about the need and direction of change and the momentum generated by the Corston Report. It argues that although the women’s policy agenda is supported by equality and human rights legislation, the operational context of the criminal justice system inhibits its realization. The reforms recognize the need for d…
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…
Remanded in Custody: An Analysis of Recent Trends in England and Wales
This article present statistics on remand in custody in England and Wales. Currently, these statistics are spread across a wide range of government statistical publications, making it challenging to determine trends. We demonstrate that decisions to remand in custody are not a major contribution to prison overcrowding. However, it is important from perspectives both of human rights and economy to keep trends under close review, and to search for …
Remanding Women in Custody: Concerns for Human Rights
Concern about the increasing population of women in prison has tended to focus on the sentencing of female offenders. It is often overlooked that about one in five women held in custody is there on remand, awaiting trial or sentence, and that most of them will not receive a prison sentence at the end of the process. This article examines the legal grounds for a custodial remand and explores the extent to which individual rights guaranteed under t…
The reduction of women’s imprisonment in England and Wales: Will the reform of short prison sentences help
The Government published a separate strategy for women offenders and established the Women’s Offending Reduction Programme to co-ordinate cross-government initiatives that target women’s offending and the criminogenic factors that underpin it. In order for preventive strategies to be taken forward the reduction of women’s imprisonment has been identified as a priority. Yet the Government has presided over a period of unprecedented growth in the f…
Criminal Justice Act 2003: The Sentencing Provisions
The 1990s began with the enactment of the first general sentencing statute for over 40 years: the CriminalJustice Act 1991. The broad purpose of the Act was to bring about a form of proportionality in sentencing recognising a hierarchy of penalty levels, from fine up to community sentences and thence to custody; requiring ajudgement of seriousness before fixing the penalty level; reserving custodial sentences for serious cases; but, by way of exc…
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…
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…
The reduction of women’s imprisonment in England and Wales: Will the reform of short prison sentences help
The Government published a separate strategy for women offenders and established the Women’s Offending Reduction Programme to co-ordinate cross-government initiatives that target women’s offending and the criminogenic factors that underpin it. In order for preventive strategies to be taken forward the reduction of women’s imprisonment has been identified as a priority. Yet the Government has presided over a period of unprecedented growth in the f…
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 Act 2003: The Sentencing Provisions
The 1990s began with the enactment of the first general sentencing statute for over 40 years: the CriminalJustice Act 1991. The broad purpose of the Act was to bring about a form of proportionality in sentencing recognising a hierarchy of penalty levels, from fine up to community sentences and thence to custody; requiring ajudgement of seriousness before fixing the penalty level; reserving custodial sentences for serious cases; but, by way of exc…
The offender personality disorder pathway and its implications for women prisoners in England and Wales
This article examines how the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway has been tailored to deliver services to a relatively wide population of women prisoners, despite the fact that few of them meet the dangerousness criteria that determine access for men. Although women in custody have a well-established claim to resources that address their mental health needs, there are legitimate concerns about programmes that foster individualised and ‘patholo…
Women in the criminal justice system: The triumph of inertia
This article explores why the government strategy for women offenders has failed to achieve its key objectives despite extensive agreement about the need and direction of change and the momentum generated by the Corston Report. It argues that although the women’s policy agenda is supported by equality and human rights legislation, the operational context of the criminal justice system inhibits its realization. The reforms recognize the need for d…
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 …
The reduction of women’s imprisonment in England and Wales: Will the reform of short prison sentences help
The Government published a separate strategy for women offenders and established the Women’s Offending Reduction Programme to co-ordinate cross-government initiatives that target women’s offending and the criminogenic factors that underpin it. In order for preventive strategies to be taken forward the reduction of women’s imprisonment has been identified as a priority. Yet the Government has presided over a period of unprecedented growth in the f…
Criminal Justice Act 2003: The Sentencing Provisions
The 1990s began with the enactment of the first general sentencing statute for over 40 years: the CriminalJustice Act 1991. The broad purpose of the Act was to bring about a form of proportionality in sentencing recognising a hierarchy of penalty levels, from fine up to community sentences and thence to custody; requiring ajudgement of seriousness before fixing the penalty level; reserving custodial sentences for serious cases; but, by way of exc…
Remanding Women in Custody: Concerns for Human Rights
Concern about the increasing population of women in prison has tended to focus on the sentencing of female offenders. It is often overlooked that about one in five women held in custody is there on remand, awaiting trial or sentence, and that most of them will not receive a prison sentence at the end of the process. This article examines the legal grounds for a custodial remand and explores the extent to which individual rights guaranteed under 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…
Remanded in Custody: An Analysis of Recent Trends in England and Wales
This article present statistics on remand in custody in England and Wales. Currently, these statistics are spread across a wide range of government statistical publications, making it challenging to determine trends. We demonstrate that decisions to remand in custody are not a major contribution to prison overcrowding. However, it is important from perspectives both of human rights and economy to keep trends under close review, and to search for …
Women in the criminal justice system: The triumph of inertia
This article explores why the government strategy for women offenders has failed to achieve its key objectives despite extensive agreement about the need and direction of change and the momentum generated by the Corston Report. It argues that although the women’s policy agenda is supported by equality and human rights legislation, the operational context of the criminal justice system inhibits its realization. The reforms recognize the need for d…
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…
The offender personality disorder pathway and its implications for women prisoners in England and Wales
This article examines how the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway has been tailored to deliver services to a relatively wide population of women prisoners, despite the fact that few of them meet the dangerousness criteria that determine access for men. Although women in custody have a well-established claim to resources that address their mental health needs, there are legitimate concerns about programmes that foster individualised and ‘patholo…
Pleading Guilty: Why Vulnerability Matters
This article examines the Sentencing Council's recent definitive guideline on what reductions in sentence can be offered for a guilty plea. We argue that its emphasis on facilitating early guilty pleas represents more than just an incentive to those intending to plead guilty and poses significant risks for defendants with vulnerabilities. The article questions whether the guideline can amount to an inducement to plead guilty which places uneven b…
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 (14 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Prison (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works)