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Author Simon, Frances

Title Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training
Published Hoboken : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Six prisons; 3 Pictures of prison work, and comparisons with outside; 4 General features of prison work; 5 Vocational training in prisons; 6 Sink, float or swim: release from prison; 7 The challenge ahead; Appendix 1 Work instructors' aims; Appendix 2 Perceptions by prison staff and prisoners of the aims and purposes of prison work; Appendix 3 Statistical analyses of the follow-up sample; Notes and references; Bibliography; Index
Summary A necessary study for those who in the future try to put Woolf into real effect.' - Sir Stephen Tumin, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons 1987-95. This detailed study of prisoners' work and training includes first-hand accounts within UK prisons
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Subject Prison industries -- Great Britain
Convict labor -- Great Britain
Prisoners -- Employment -- Great Britain
Ex-convicts -- Employment -- Great Britain
Convict labor
Ex-convicts -- Employment
Prison industries
Prisoners -- Employment
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Tumin, Sir Stephen
ISBN 9780203979358
0203979354