Prison Governors
Managing Prisons in a Time of Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8402383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eduardo Crawley (University of Salford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-108 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azm063 |
| OpenAlex | W1965071039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this timely book, Shane Bryan addresses a significant gap in the British prisons literature, and he does so with sensitivity and insight. His book adds an important dimension to the existing literature on prisons precisely because it focuses on the perspective of those who are expected to manage them in today's changing penal landscape. Bryans was in a unique position to write such a book, since, for many years, he was himself a prison governor. He is therefore well placed to talk knowledgeably about prison governance—not only in terms of describing the nature of the work that governors do, but also in terms of the changing contexts in which they do their work, the ways in which they define their role and purpose and, importantly, the demands that conflicting and competing pressures place on the individuals themselves. These are all important but hitherto largely un-regarded issues, and the scholarly...
Business · Corporate governance · Criminology · Dimension (graph theory) · Economics · Governor · Management · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Position (finance) · Prison · Sociology · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |