Roy D King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy D King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy D |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Albany
Originally published in 1977, Albany: Birth of a Prison - End of an Era attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. Albany was planned and built as a medium-security establishment but the growth in the prison population meant it ended up, in part, as a maximum-security unit. At the time the prison was notorious, after a stor…
The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation
Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician’s Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the prison and probation services since 1991. Setting out the nature and extent of the crisis, King and Willmott show how the Woolf agenda was overridden in a process of political churn, through explora…
Honest Politician s Guide to Prisons and Probation
A Comparison of British and American Policies for Managing Dangerous Prisoners
This essay traces the development of policies regarding difficult and dangerous prisoners in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present day. In essence policies about dangerous prisoners in the Unites States have been driven primarily by concerns about bad behaviors inside prisons control problems whereas in Britain the driving force has been fears about escapes security risks. Although control problems and security risks can and…
Power, Control, and Symbiosis in Brazilian Prisons
The potential for the corruption of the authority of guards by prisoners, either individually or as members of gangs, is well documented in the Anglo-American literature. What distinguishes the situation of prison gang culture in Brazil are its origins in economic deprivation and political suppression, the extent of its apparent power within large numbers of institutions, and its integration with criminal culture in the outside world. Novitiate p…
To max or not to max
Following a number of high profile escapes during the 1990s, policy makers in the Dutch Prison Service and in the Prison Service of England and Wales faced stark choices about how to house their highest risk offenders. They made those choices in the spotlight of publicity and under pressure from politicians and the press. In this article we seek to present the choices made in the light of the respective histories of the two systems by using a fra…
The Rise and Rise of Supermax
In the last decade there has been a dramatic growth in the use of so-called super-maximum security custody in the United States. At the end of 1998 some 20,000 prisoners or 1.8 percent of all those serving sentences of a year or more in state and federal prisons were accommodated in such facilities. Most supermax facilities, including the Federal ADX at Florence Colorado and those in 30 states, have been newly constructed although some states hav…
The State of Our Prisons
John Howard's original State of Our Prisons was a famous landmark in the history of literature on crime, criminal justice and attitudes to offenders in England and Wales. On publication towards the end of the 18th century, its impact was immediate and profound, effecting a change in attitude towards the incarceration of offenders. What, then, is the state of our prisons today, some 200 years after his death? In this original study, two leading ex…
Prisons in Eastern Europe
This paper explores some of the similarities and differences between the prison systems of eastern Europe since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and then considers in more detail the process of prison reform in Romania. Two projects carried out under the auspices of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee and Penal Reform International working in cooperation with the Romanian Penitentiary Administration, are considered: a training seminar for …
The Irish in Prison
Cet article etudie les conditions de detention des membres de l'I.R.A. emprisonnes en Grande-Bretagne. L'A. montre que celles-ci sont tributaires des aleas dans les negociations entre independantistes irlandais et gouvernement britannique, que chaque progres dans les pourparlers est marque par un assouplissement de la detention et que tout echec conduit a un retour a des conditions de surveillance maximales. L'A., sur la base de donnees qualitati…
Prisons In Context
Prisons occupy a central position in the criminal justice system of all the developed nations. State controlled, and now increasingly privately run though state regulated, prisons are actually and symbolically the organs of state power which are used to punish deviant members of society. Much is known about prisons, their administration, their effectiveness and their problems. Particularly since the crisis in British prisons began to become appar…
Russian Prisons After Perestroika
Journal Article RUSSIAN PRISONS AFTER PERESTROIKA: End of the Gulag? Get access Roy D. King Roy D. King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 34, Issue S1, 1994, Pages 62–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.34.S1.62 Published: 01 September 1994
Maximum-Security Custody in Britain and the Usa
This paper provides the first detailed comparisons between an American ‘new generation’ maximum-security prison (Oak Park Heights) and a British maximum-security ‘dispersal’ prison (Gartree), based on research conducted by the same researcher using the same research strategy and instruments. Oak Park Heights is perceived to be safer, more secure, and more trouble-free. It also offers a fuller, and more highly rated, programme of treatment, indust…
My Geranium Is Subversive
The prison system of England and Wales relies on a number of measures, said to be 'merely administrative' in character, to maintain order in its establishments. In this paper the official discourse on order and control in prisons is examined and the characteristic methods of identifying 'control problem' prisoners are criticised. The processes by which 'control problems' are socially constructed and then entered into the official discourse are ex…
A Fresh Start
The introduction of the new staffing package known as Fresh Start was expected to release up to 20% of spare capacity in the prison system that could be used, among other things, to enhance regimes for prisoners. In this study of five prisons in Midland Region comparisons on seven regime measures before and after Fresh Start showed twice as many examples of deterioration as enhancement of regimes
British Prisons 1970–1987
The prison crisis is usually perceived to be a problem of crowding and sanitation in the local prisons. In this paper the data from two research projects, conducted in 1970–2 and 1985–7, are compared. Each involved the study of a different but representative and comparable group of five prisons for adult males. The data show that while crowding in local prisons continues to be a problem, sanitary facilities have been improved. However, on most me…
Mind Games
Staff and prisoners frequently characterise certain aspects of their experience of imprisonment as “mind games” or “head games”. This paper, based on extensive participant observation on the wings and landings of five representative prisons for men in the Midland Region of the prison system of England and Wales, presents the interactions between staff and prisoners as a series of game-like tactical moves to ensure survival. It is suggested that t…
The Prison System
In this paper the authors review developments within the prison service since the publication of the May Report in 1979. They do so from the standpoint of their own evidence to the May Committee because, it is argued, no alternative view of the future of the prison system has been systematically developed. It is suggested that in spite of the abandonment of serious attempts to control the size of the prison population, the massive extension of th…
Industrial Relations in the Prison Service1
In this abbreviated version of an address to the Howard League three models of management‐staff relations in the prison service are reviewed: a military model, a professional model and a wage‐labour model. It is suggested that the military model can no longer apply, and that attempts to introduce a professional model failed. Unless major changes to the service can be achieved, that would allow a new professional model to be introduced, it is argu…
Albany
A Trying Time for the Untried
An operational measure of inmate management in residential institutions
The Rise and Rise of Supermax
In the last decade there has been a dramatic growth in the use of so-called super-maximum security custody in the United States. At the end of 1998 some 20,000 prisoners or 1.8 percent of all those serving sentences of a year or more in state and federal prisons were accommodated in such facilities. Most supermax facilities, including the Federal ADX at Florence Colorado and those in 30 states, have been newly constructed although some states hav…
My Geranium Is Subversive
The prison system of England and Wales relies on a number of measures, said to be 'merely administrative' in character, to maintain order in its establishments. In this paper the official discourse on order and control in prisons is examined and the characteristic methods of identifying 'control problem' prisoners are criticised. The processes by which 'control problems' are socially constructed and then entered into the official discourse are ex…
Mind Games
Staff and prisoners frequently characterise certain aspects of their experience of imprisonment as “mind games” or “head games”. This paper, based on extensive participant observation on the wings and landings of five representative prisons for men in the Midland Region of the prison system of England and Wales, presents the interactions between staff and prisoners as a series of game-like tactical moves to ensure survival. It is suggested that t…
The State of Our Prisons
John Howard's original State of Our Prisons was a famous landmark in the history of literature on crime, criminal justice and attitudes to offenders in England and Wales. On publication towards the end of the 18th century, its impact was immediate and profound, effecting a change in attitude towards the incarceration of offenders. What, then, is the state of our prisons today, some 200 years after his death? In this original study, two leading ex…
Power, Control, and Symbiosis in Brazilian Prisons
The potential for the corruption of the authority of guards by prisoners, either individually or as members of gangs, is well documented in the Anglo-American literature. What distinguishes the situation of prison gang culture in Brazil are its origins in economic deprivation and political suppression, the extent of its apparent power within large numbers of institutions, and its integration with criminal culture in the outside world. Novitiate p…
Russian Prisons After Perestroika
Journal Article RUSSIAN PRISONS AFTER PERESTROIKA: End of the Gulag? Get access Roy D. King Roy D. King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 34, Issue S1, 1994, Pages 62–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.34.S1.62 Published: 01 September 1994
An operational measure of inmate management in residential institutions
The Irish in Prison
Cet article etudie les conditions de detention des membres de l'I.R.A. emprisonnes en Grande-Bretagne. L'A. montre que celles-ci sont tributaires des aleas dans les negociations entre independantistes irlandais et gouvernement britannique, que chaque progres dans les pourparlers est marque par un assouplissement de la detention et que tout echec conduit a un retour a des conditions de surveillance maximales. L'A., sur la base de donnees qualitati…
British Prisons 1970–1987
The prison crisis is usually perceived to be a problem of crowding and sanitation in the local prisons. In this paper the data from two research projects, conducted in 1970–2 and 1985–7, are compared. Each involved the study of a different but representative and comparable group of five prisons for adult males. The data show that while crowding in local prisons continues to be a problem, sanitary facilities have been improved. However, on most me…
Albany
Originally published in 1977, Albany: Birth of a Prison - End of an Era attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. Albany was planned and built as a medium-security establishment but the growth in the prison population meant it ended up, in part, as a maximum-security unit. At the time the prison was notorious, after a stor…
To max or not to max
Following a number of high profile escapes during the 1990s, policy makers in the Dutch Prison Service and in the Prison Service of England and Wales faced stark choices about how to house their highest risk offenders. They made those choices in the spotlight of publicity and under pressure from politicians and the press. In this article we seek to present the choices made in the light of the respective histories of the two systems by using a fra…
An operational measure of inmate management in residential institutions
A Trying Time for the Untried
Albany
The Prison System
In this paper the authors review developments within the prison service since the publication of the May Report in 1979. They do so from the standpoint of their own evidence to the May Committee because, it is argued, no alternative view of the future of the prison system has been systematically developed. It is suggested that in spite of the abandonment of serious attempts to control the size of the prison population, the massive extension of th…
Industrial Relations in the Prison Service1
In this abbreviated version of an address to the Howard League three models of management‐staff relations in the prison service are reviewed: a military model, a professional model and a wage‐labour model. It is suggested that the military model can no longer apply, and that attempts to introduce a professional model failed. Unless major changes to the service can be achieved, that would allow a new professional model to be introduced, it is argu…
Mind Games
Staff and prisoners frequently characterise certain aspects of their experience of imprisonment as “mind games” or “head games”. This paper, based on extensive participant observation on the wings and landings of five representative prisons for men in the Midland Region of the prison system of England and Wales, presents the interactions between staff and prisoners as a series of game-like tactical moves to ensure survival. It is suggested that t…
A Fresh Start
The introduction of the new staffing package known as Fresh Start was expected to release up to 20% of spare capacity in the prison system that could be used, among other things, to enhance regimes for prisoners. In this study of five prisons in Midland Region comparisons on seven regime measures before and after Fresh Start showed twice as many examples of deterioration as enhancement of regimes
British Prisons 1970–1987
The prison crisis is usually perceived to be a problem of crowding and sanitation in the local prisons. In this paper the data from two research projects, conducted in 1970–2 and 1985–7, are compared. Each involved the study of a different but representative and comparable group of five prisons for adult males. The data show that while crowding in local prisons continues to be a problem, sanitary facilities have been improved. However, on most me…
My Geranium Is Subversive
The prison system of England and Wales relies on a number of measures, said to be 'merely administrative' in character, to maintain order in its establishments. In this paper the official discourse on order and control in prisons is examined and the characteristic methods of identifying 'control problem' prisoners are criticised. The processes by which 'control problems' are socially constructed and then entered into the official discourse are ex…
Maximum-Security Custody in Britain and the Usa
This paper provides the first detailed comparisons between an American ‘new generation’ maximum-security prison (Oak Park Heights) and a British maximum-security ‘dispersal’ prison (Gartree), based on research conducted by the same researcher using the same research strategy and instruments. Oak Park Heights is perceived to be safer, more secure, and more trouble-free. It also offers a fuller, and more highly rated, programme of treatment, indust…
Prisons In Context
Prisons occupy a central position in the criminal justice system of all the developed nations. State controlled, and now increasingly privately run though state regulated, prisons are actually and symbolically the organs of state power which are used to punish deviant members of society. Much is known about prisons, their administration, their effectiveness and their problems. Particularly since the crisis in British prisons began to become appar…
Russian Prisons After Perestroika
Journal Article RUSSIAN PRISONS AFTER PERESTROIKA: End of the Gulag? Get access Roy D. King Roy D. King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 34, Issue S1, 1994, Pages 62–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.34.S1.62 Published: 01 September 1994
The Irish in Prison
Cet article etudie les conditions de detention des membres de l'I.R.A. emprisonnes en Grande-Bretagne. L'A. montre que celles-ci sont tributaires des aleas dans les negociations entre independantistes irlandais et gouvernement britannique, que chaque progres dans les pourparlers est marque par un assouplissement de la detention et que tout echec conduit a un retour a des conditions de surveillance maximales. L'A., sur la base de donnees qualitati…
Prisons in Eastern Europe
This paper explores some of the similarities and differences between the prison systems of eastern Europe since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and then considers in more detail the process of prison reform in Romania. Two projects carried out under the auspices of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee and Penal Reform International working in cooperation with the Romanian Penitentiary Administration, are considered: a training seminar for …
The State of Our Prisons
John Howard's original State of Our Prisons was a famous landmark in the history of literature on crime, criminal justice and attitudes to offenders in England and Wales. On publication towards the end of the 18th century, its impact was immediate and profound, effecting a change in attitude towards the incarceration of offenders. What, then, is the state of our prisons today, some 200 years after his death? In this original study, two leading ex…
The Rise and Rise of Supermax
In the last decade there has been a dramatic growth in the use of so-called super-maximum security custody in the United States. At the end of 1998 some 20,000 prisoners or 1.8 percent of all those serving sentences of a year or more in state and federal prisons were accommodated in such facilities. Most supermax facilities, including the Federal ADX at Florence Colorado and those in 30 states, have been newly constructed although some states hav…
To max or not to max
Following a number of high profile escapes during the 1990s, policy makers in the Dutch Prison Service and in the Prison Service of England and Wales faced stark choices about how to house their highest risk offenders. They made those choices in the spotlight of publicity and under pressure from politicians and the press. In this article we seek to present the choices made in the light of the respective histories of the two systems by using a fra…
Power, Control, and Symbiosis in Brazilian Prisons
The potential for the corruption of the authority of guards by prisoners, either individually or as members of gangs, is well documented in the Anglo-American literature. What distinguishes the situation of prison gang culture in Brazil are its origins in economic deprivation and political suppression, the extent of its apparent power within large numbers of institutions, and its integration with criminal culture in the outside world. Novitiate p…
A Comparison of British and American Policies for Managing Dangerous Prisoners
This essay traces the development of policies regarding difficult and dangerous prisoners in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present day. In essence policies about dangerous prisoners in the Unites States have been driven primarily by concerns about bad behaviors inside prisons control problems whereas in Britain the driving force has been fears about escapes security risks. Although control problems and security risks can and…
The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation
Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician’s Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the prison and probation services since 1991. Setting out the nature and extent of the crisis, King and Willmott show how the Woolf agenda was overridden in a process of political churn, through explora…
Honest Politician s Guide to Prisons and Probation
Albany
Originally published in 1977, Albany: Birth of a Prison - End of an Era attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. Albany was planned and built as a medium-security establishment but the growth in the prison population meant it ended up, in part, as a maximum-security unit. At the time the prison was notorious, after a stor…
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