Table of Contents

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

Reviews

This comprehensive book of readings is particularly timely ... The range of topics is ambitious, from prisonography; security in prisons, over-representation of indigenous people; managing the aged, mentally ill and women in prisons; ethics and professionalism of correctional officers to considerations of crime prevention and looking to the future. ... All of the pieces are fairly short, with most being under ten pages. The text runs to 232 pages. The format is clear and easy to follow. None of the articles is heavy with statistical tables but the references throughout to relevant statistics are generally clear, and usually form part of the narrative. These features make the book helpful and useful to students but also to busy practitioners and academics who are looking for a text to dip into for current specific pieces of information. Footnotes, when there are any, are found at the bottom of each page where they belong and the book is completed by an impressively lengthy and comprehensive bibliography. ... We can certainly recommend this book to prisoners who are interested in reading about the issues, principles and philosophical standpoints concerning the incarceration that they themselves are experiencing and we suggest it should be available in every prison library. ... We also hope this book is widely read by correctional services policy makers. - Inside Out, April 2005