Managing Prisons: Managerialism, Austerity and Moral Blindness

by Jamie Bennett

This book critiques the practices of managerialism and their effects on those who live and work in prisons. It draws upon ethnographic research conducted in English prisons over a 15 year period, written by a former prison governor. Since the last years of the 20th century, public services in England have increasingly adopted managerial approaches with an architecture of target setting, surveillance and assertive line management. The book examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031748484
• ISBN13: 9783031748486
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.5"