Prison

Why Prison Doesn't Work?

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ABSTRACT

Majority of the prisons are unable to comprehend the definition of what constitutes 'working.' According to Hanks (2008) in most of the case, the term working of prisons is used with an unclear definition that creates misconception regarding the rehabilitation of the prisoners (p. 98). The prison service is facing severe crisis due to the lack of adequate working practice in the prisons of th0e UK. It should be noticed that there are variety of factors that damage the ability of the prison to promote rehabilitation of the prisoners including insufficient budgets, short staffing, legitimacy as well as reoffending issues. The aim of the study is to explore the factors that obstruct the success as well as effectiveness of the prisons in the UK. Moreover, the study is intended to explore the impact of punitive system, prison's environment as well as behaviour of the prison officers on the rehabilitation of the prisoners. However, it is observed that major changes are required in the context of criminal justice system as well as punitive system in order to ensure availability of sufficient resources.

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

1.1Background of the study1

1.2Rationale of the Study1

1.3Problem Statement1

1.4Aims and objectives2

1.5Research Question2

1.6Scope of the Study2

CHPATER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW2

2.1Governmental issues and errors4

2.2Impact of Limited Resources on Efficiency of Prisons5

2.3Legitimacy crisis6

2.4Reoffending7

2.5Prisons and Anti Social behaviour8

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY8

3. 1Research Design8

3. 2Mixed Research Method8

3. 3Qualitative and Quantitative Approach9

3. 4Data Collection Technique10

3. 5Inclusion and Exclusion Criterion11

3. 6Limitations of the Research Methodology11

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS12

CHAPTER 5: CONLCUSION15

REFERENCES15

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

Working of prisons can be defined as the cusses as well as effectiveness of the prisons in terms of rehabilitation of the prisoners in order to minimize the antisocial behaviour of the prisoners. However, it should be taken into account that the majority of the prisons are unable to comprehend the definition of what constitutes 'working.' According to Hanks (2008) in most of the case, the term working of prisons is used with an unclear definition that creates misconception regarding the rehabilitation of the prisoners (p. 98). Additionally, Saunders and Billante (2003) reveal that the most prevailing general misconception of the imprisonment is that it is considered as the way of punishing the people for their law abiding behaviours (p.5). According to them, imprisonment should be considered as a legal way to punish criminals, rehabilitee the anti social behaviour of the people as well as to ensure the protection of the ...