The Voluntary Sector in Prisons: Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change: 2016 (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)

Author: Laura S. Abrams,Emma Hughes,Michelle Inderbitzin,Rosie Meek
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Crime & Criminology, Penology & Punishment
Book Format: Paperback

This volume examines how volunteers and non-profit programs encourage institutional change in prisons and offer individual support and services to people who are housed behind bars. Through a diverse set of chapters, including two that are co-written by current prisoners, the volume spans the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and juvenile and adult facilities. The book showcases the exciting, groundbreaking, and yet often unrecognized work that the voluntary sector provides in correctional settings. Collectively, the chapters highlight beneficial practices while raising critical questions about the role of the voluntary sector in prison and reentry settings. The chapters also offer useful information about how to implement innovative prison programs that promote health, education, and peer support.




Laura S. Abrams is Professor of Social Welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, California, USA. She is the author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (2013) and Life After Juvie: Young Men and Women on Desistance, Survival, and Becoming an Adult (forthcoming).

Emma Hughes is Associate Professor of Criminology at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of the book Education in Prison: Studying through Distance Learning (2012). She has contributed book chapters on offender rehabilitation to edited volumes and previously lectured at Birmingham City University, UK.

Michelle Inderbitzin is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA. She is the lead author of the books Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective (2013) and Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (2015).



Rosie Meek is Professor, Chartered Psychologist, and Head of the Law School at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She is the author of Sport in Prison (2014) and is a Fulbright distinguished scholar, University of California, San Diego, USA.

Table Of Contents
Part

I: Background.- Chapter One Introduction The Significance of Voluntary Sector Provision in Correctional Settings Laura S. Abrams, Emma Hughes,

Rosie Meek, Michelle Inderbitzin.- Chapter Two Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Programs in Prisons

and Jails: Perspectives from England and the United States Emma

Hughes.- Part II: Prisoners as Volunteers.- Chapter Three.- Learning and

Practicing Citizenship and Democracy Behind Bars Michelle

Inderbitzin, Joshua Cain, and Trevor Walraven.- Chapter Four Leading by Example:

Ways that Prisoners Give Back to their Communities Michelle

Inderbitzin, Trevor Walraven, and James Anderson.- Chapter

Five Movements

Towards Desistance Via Peer-Support Roles in Prison Christian

Perrin and Nicholas Blagden.- Chapter Six The

Development of a Peer-Based Approach for Promoting Prisoner Health in an

English Male Young Offender Institution Anita

Mehay and Rosie Meek.- Part III: The Non-Profit Sector and Prison

Culture: Interactions, Boundaries, and Opportunities.- Chapter Seven.- The

Involvement of Nonprofit Organizations in Prisoner Reentry in the UK: Prisoner

Awareness and Engagement Rosie Meek, Dina Gojkovic and

Alice Mills.- Chapter Eight Carceral Devolution and the Transformation of Urban America Reuben Miller and Gwendolyn Purifoye.- Chapter

Nine From

Ex-Offender to New Contributor: An Examination of How a Community-Based Reentry

Program Addresses Racial Barriers to Employment.- Charles H. Lea III and Laura S. Abrams.- Chapter Ten Penal

Assemblages: Governing

Youth In The Penal Voluntary Sector Abigail

Salole.- Part IV: Supporting the Supporters: The Voices

of Volunteers.- Chapter Eleven "Volunteers Welcome, that

is, Some Volunteers": Experiences Teaching College Courses at a Women's Prison Kristenne

M. Robison.- Chapter Twelve Crossing The Color Line into America's Prisons: Volunteers of Color Reflect on

Race and Identity in a College Service Learning Project Jennifer

R. Tilton.- Chapter Thirteen Developing Self-Care

Strategies for Volunteers in a Prison Writing Program Tobi

Jacobi and Lara Rose Roberts.
About Laura S. Abrams
Laura S. Abrams is Professor of Social Welfare
at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, California, USA. She is the author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the
Life of Unit C (2013) and Life After Juvie: Young Men and Women on Desistance, Survival, and
Becoming an Adult (forthcoming).
Emma Hughes is Associate Professor of
Criminology at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of the
book Education in Prison: Studying
through Distance Learning (2012). She has contributed book
chapters on offender rehabilitation to edited volumes and previously lectured
at Birmingham City University, UK.

Michelle Inderbitzin is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA. She is the lead author of the books Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective (2013) and Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (2015).
Rosie Meek is Professor, Chartered
Psychologist, and Head of the Law School at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
She is the author of Sport in Prison
(2014) and is a Fulbright distinguished scholar, University of
California, San Diego, USA.

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