Product Description
As prison populations increase in Australia and worldwide, Corrections Criminology is a timely stocktake of what we know about corrections. The book encompasses corrections in the community as well as private and public prisons, and is written by leading academics and senior practitioners.
The book covers seven main themes:
Trends in Correctional Populations (in Australia and worldwide)
The Objectives, Standards and Efficacy of Imprisonment, including key issues such as accountability, treatment of prisoners, security and privatisation
Special Prison Populations, such as Indigenous, female and ageing prisoners
Prisoner Health, including mental health and strategies for minimising self-harm
Rehabilitation and Reparation, including consideration of “what works?” and post-release support
Correctional Officers, particularly considering the changing career of corrections staff and
Future Directions in corrections.
Corrections criminology
Sean O’Toole, Assistant Director, Learning and Staff Development,
NSW Department of Corrective Services
Simon Eyland, Director, Corporate Research, Evaluation and Statistics,
NSW Department of Corrective Services
World correctional populations trends and issues
Mike Bartlett – Manager, International Programs, NSW Dept of
Corrective Services
Prison populations in Australia
Kyleigh Heggie – Research and Information Manager, NSW Dept of
Corrective Services
Australian Community Corrections population trends and issues
David Daley, Director, Community Corrections Victoria
Prisonography: Sources of knowledge and perspectives about prisons
Professor Lucien Lombard, Old Dominion University, US
Commissions of inquiry and penal reform
Professor David Brown, University of NSW
Security in correctional systems
Ron Woodham, Commissioner, NSW Department of Corrective Services
Privatisation in the corrections industry
Sean O’Toole, Assistant Director, Learning and Staff Development,
NSW Department of Corrective Services
Human rights in corrections practice
Brian Tkachuk and Eileen Skinnider, International Centre for Criminal Law
Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, Canada
“Good corrections”: Implications for leadership and organisational performance
Ole Ingstrup, Commissioner, Correctional Service of Canada
(1988-1992/1996-2000, President of the International Corrections and
Prisons Association
Inspecting prisons
Professor Richard Harding, Inspector of Custodial Services for Western Australia
Causes and prevention of violence in prisons
Professor Ross Homel and Carleen Thompson, Griffith University
The over-representation of Indigenous persons in custody
Bill Anscombe, Charles Sturt University
Risk and responsibilities in women’s prisons
Professor Pat Carlen, Keele University, UK
Managing an ageing prison population
Dr John Dawes, Charles Sturt University
Prisoner health
Michael Levy, Director, Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice,
Justice Health NSW
Tony Butler, Research Manager, Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice,
Justice Health NSW
Tony Falconer, Consultant, Health & Medical, Queensland Corrections
Managing mentally ill offenders released from jail – the US experience
Professor Dale Sechrest, University of California, US
Associate Professor Don Josi, Armstrong Atlantic State University, US
Offenders with drug and alcohol dependencies
Maria Kevin, Senior Research Officer, NSW Department of Corrective Services
A framework for minimising the incidence of self-harm in prison
Dr Greg Dear, Edith Cowan University
Beyond what works – a retrospective of Robert Martinson’s famous article
Associate Professor Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
[This chapter was previously published under the title ‘Beyond ‘What Works?’: A 25 Year Jubilee Retrospective of
Robert Martinson’s Famous Article’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 34 (1), 38-46, 2001.
Reprinted with Permission]
Bridging the gap between prison and the community: Post-release support and supervision
Dr Stuart Ross, Centre for Criminological Research and Evaluation,
Melbourne University Private
Prison industries in a time of science-based prison programming
Judy McHutchison, Senior Research Officer, NSW Department
of Corrective Services
The effect of post-release housing on prisoner re-integration into the community
Dr Eileen Baldry, University of New South Wales
Ethics and the role of the Correctional Officer
Anna Grant, Crime Prevention Officer, Queensland Crime and
Misconduct Commission
Measuring prisons and their moral performance
Alison Liebling, Director Prisons Research Centre, Cambridge University, UK
Professionalising the Correctional Officer: The US perspective
Professor Don A Josi, University of California, US
Associate Professor Dale K Sechrest, Armstrong State University, US
Human resources analysis of the Australian corrections industry
Sean O’Toole, Assistant Director, Learning and Staff Development,
NSW Department of Corrective Services
Towards crime prevention
Professor David Biles, Charles Sturt University
What future for the prison?
Paul Wilson, Professor of Criminology, Bond University