The Penal Voluntary Sector

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ID19914767
AuthorsPhilippa Tomczak (0000-0002-2347-2479, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages188
Publication date2016-10-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePenal Voluntary Sector (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315641423
OpenAlexW2911512198
Open LibraryOL53963510M
ISBN9781315641423
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDfCwlDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited1

Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector has featured significantly in both policy rhetoric and academic commentary. Penal voluntary organisations are increasingly delivering prison and probation services under contract, and this role is set to expand. However, the diverse voluntary organisations which comprise the sector, their varied relationships with statutory agencies and the effects of such work remain very poorly understood. This book provides a wide-ranging and rigorous examination of this policy-relevant but complex and little studied area. It explores what voluntary organisations are doing with prisoners and probationers, how they manage to undertake their work, and the effects of charitable work with prisoners and probationers. The author uses original empirical research and an innovative application of actor-network theory to enable a step change in our understanding of this increasingly significant sector, and develops the policy-centric accounts produced in the last decade to illustrate how voluntary organisations can mediate the experiences of imprisonment and probation at the micro and macro levels. Demonstrating how the legacy of philanthropic work and neoliberal policy reforms over the past thirty years have created a complex three-tier penal voluntary sector of diverse organisations, this cutting-edge interdisciplinary text will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists of work and industry, and those engaged in the voluntary sector

Criminology · Economics · Imprisonment · Management · Political science · Prison · Public relations · Sociology · Statutory law · Turnover · Voluntary sector · Work (physics) · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Administration of Criminal justice · Charities · Great britain · Prisons · Social Science · Volunteers

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