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Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy
agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been
acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison
population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are
released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the
infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two
influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by
prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to
ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The
resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked
directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The
renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context
of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and
understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the
contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners
in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts.
Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis
of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the
early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically
reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners
resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two
resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation
provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners
resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the
resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women,
minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and
high-risk offenders.
Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy
agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been
acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison
population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are
released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the
infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two
influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by
prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to
ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The
resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked
directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The
renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context
of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and
understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the
contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners
in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts.
Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis
of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the
early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically
reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners
resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two
resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation
provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners
resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the
resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women,
minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and
high-risk offenders.
The book examines the practice of imprisonment in Trinidad and
Tobago. It demonstrates that the rate fluctuates with employment
except for two periods when this is not so. These anomalies are
explained by the political salience of ethnicity. Similarly it
shows the limitations in that the relevant mediation between labour
market and imprisonment is not reform groups but ethnic politics.
However, the lack of reform groups may explain the non
sustainability of reform movements linked to ethnic struggles.
Official reports are analysed to identify penal discourse. Two
official discourses were identified one in 1935 and one in 1975
when a welfare discourse came briefly to the fore. Prisoners relate
their experiences and the connection between the conditions and
their survival strategies after prison. The concluding analysis
tests the model of imprisonment that is internationally renowned
and is the only one of its kind in the context of the country. It
will be especially useful for academia, historians, sociologists
and criminologists, penal policy making bodies, practitioners and
anyone who may consider crime and imprisonment, singularly or
comparatively.
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