The prison officer / Alison Liebling, David Price and Guy Shefer.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Liebling, Alison.
• TeilnehmendeR: Price, David.; Shefer, Guy.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvi, 236 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction : prison officers at their best
• 2. Who is the prison officer?
• 3. Understanding prison officers and their role
• 4. The complexities of the role
• 5. Staff-prisoner relationships : the heart of prison work
• 6. The centrality of discretion in the work of prison officers
• 7. Prison officer culture and unionisation
• 8. The prison officer in a modern bureaucracy
• 9. Conclusions.