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What Are Prisons For? Hindpal Singh Bhui (University of Oxford)

What Are Prisons For? By Hindpal Singh Bhui (University of Oxford)

What Are Prisons For? by Hindpal Singh Bhui (University of Oxford)


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Summary

Hindpal Singh Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims, he asks whether prison is an institution for managing marginalized people, or if there is a better way to achieve the socially useful goals of prisons.

What Are Prisons For? Summary

What Are Prisons For? by Hindpal Singh Bhui (University of Oxford)

What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social and personal impact of prisons demands that we try to search for a better understanding of the evidence and ideas that have made prisons so ubiquitous. Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons.

About Hindpal Singh Bhui (University of Oxford)

Dr Hindpal Singh Bhui OBE is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons and a Visiting Law Professor at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. He has worked in prisons for over 25 years undertaking hundreds of visits to places of detention around the world. He has also led various thematic reviews on custody in England and Wales, including on foreign prisoners, minority ethnic prisoners, rehabilitative work and immigration detention. He has given evidence to numerous UK parliamentary committees, public inquiries and the European Parliament, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

Table of Contents

1. A Journey into Prisons 2. A Brief History of Imprisonment in the West 3. The Emergence of Prison around the World 4. Mass Incarceration, Race and Crime 5. Do the Crime, Do the Time? Who Are Prisoners? 6. Experiencing Prison 7. Where Next for Prisons?

Additional information

NGR9781529226898
9781529226898
1529226899
What Are Prisons For? by Hindpal Singh Bhui (University of Oxford)
New
Paperback
Bristol University Press
2024-03-26
182
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