Situational prison control
Crime prevention in correctional institutions
- ISBN: 9780521009409
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2002
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Colección: Cambridge Studies in Criminology
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 253
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime prevention in community setting, Richard Wortley argues that the same principles can be used to help reduce the levels of asault, rape, self-harm, drug use, espace and collective violence in our prison systems. This pioneering new study proposes a two-stage model of situational prevention that moves beyond traditional opportunity redyction: it attempts to reconcile the contradictory urges to control prison disorder by "tightening up" and hardening the prison environment on the one hand, and "loosening off" and normalising it on the other. Combining a comprenhensive synthesis and evañuation of existing research with original investigation and ground-breaking conclusions, Situational Prison Control will be of great interest to academincs and practitioners both in the areas of correction and of crime prevention more generally
