Role Exit in Prison Officers: Returning to ‘Civvy Street’
Autor Sarah Nixon, Darren Woodwarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 dec 2024
Writing from their experiences as ex-prison officers now working in academia, the authors draw upon ‘insider’ positionality of their own ex-prison officer narratives, which has shaped and developed their research design. They also employ interview data collected from other ex-prison officers to identify the rewards and challenges of working within a prison environment, with Ebaugh’s (1988) role exit theory serving as a theoretical framework to offer an original approach to understanding the lived experience of prison officers who leave the service. The authors address issues including the impact of austerity, Voluntary Early Departure Scheme (VEDS), the decline in transmission of knowledge to staff (‘jail craft’), high staff turnover, increased violence and the impact of COVID-19 on prison officer retention rates. Barriers towards workplace integration, burnout and the culture of ‘presenteeism’ are prevalent themes alongside difficulties experienced when transitioning back into civilian life. This is balanced with an exposition of what ex-prison officers recall positively about their time in service, such as loyalty, support, solidarity, pride at wearing the uniform and helping prisoners with their custodial lives. The book also makes practical recommendations, including the need for sustainability and retention within the prison officer workforce; to re-establish the role of prison officer as a ‘career’; to lower the age of retirement to match the police/fire service; to place a greater emphasis upon building the morale of staff and a wider recognition of the impact of trauma to support (ex) prison officers.
Giving authentic insights into the role of prison officers, the issues they face and subsequent reasons for leaving the service, this book is ideal reading for students and academics within the fields of criminology, penology, criminal justice, sociology, and criminal and occupational psychology. It will also be of great interest to criminal justice practitioners and organisations such as Unlocked Graduates, the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032049519
ISBN-10: 1032049510
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032049510
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
1. Introduction - Returning to Civvy Street: Role exit in prison officers 2. Prison Officers and Penal Environments 3. Methodology 4. Theoretical framework 5. Positive aspects of working as a prison officer 6. Doubt/Burnout/Frustration Within the Role of Prison Officer 7. ‘Searching for Alternatives’ Away from the Prison Service 8. Departure from the Prison Service HMPPS 9. New Role/Identity Post-Prison Officer: “Returning to Civvy Street” 10. Conclusion and Recommendations
Recenzii
"There is certainly a need for more texts like this about the lived experiences of former prison officers. The market is saturated by ex-prisoner accounts yet there’s still a huge gap of ex-prison officer accounts. This book helps to fill that gap which will be a refreshing insight for many practitioners, pracademics and students alike! It draws on many of the same themes always associated with ex-prisoners such as desistance which includes the process of reintegrating and identity transition. There is also a strong theme of Sykes seminal work about the Pains of Imprisonment which although focuses on the deprivations experienced by prisoners, can most certainly be translated to the lives of prison officers who are affected in many ways by the pains of imprisonment as prisoners themselves!"
David Honeywell, Lecturer in Criminology, Arden University, UK
"Contributing to a growing body of work on prison staff, this book presents a unique opportunity to explore the lived realities of personal, professional and cultural transitions involved in leaving the prison service. Role Exit in Prison Officers: Returning to ‘Civvy Street’ delivers an opportunity to understand why prison officers are leaving the service, particularly focusing on voluntary termination, medical retirement and discharge. This is timely work in the wake of the recently seen ‘exodus’ of experienced operational prison staff who are, crucially, well-versed in ‘jailcraft’. Interrogating the liminal space between employment in the prison service and what lies next in the lives of those who leave, this publication deals with important issues of transition, burnout and identity reorientation. Much like the resettlement and reintegration into the community of those who have served prison sentences, the return to ‘civvy street’ for former prison officers comes with its own unique set of personal challenges which require attention in the penological field. This publication will be of interest to academic, practitioner and policy maker communities and should be embraced by all with an interest in the impact of carceral spaces on people who work within them."
Helen Nichols, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull, UK
"Nixon and Woodward combine professional experience with scholarly knowledge to produce this book which is written with insight, empathy and nuance. It is a great read for criminology students and scholars and for those who seek to understand the realities of working in prison better."
Francis Pakes, Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth, UK
David Honeywell, Lecturer in Criminology, Arden University, UK
"Contributing to a growing body of work on prison staff, this book presents a unique opportunity to explore the lived realities of personal, professional and cultural transitions involved in leaving the prison service. Role Exit in Prison Officers: Returning to ‘Civvy Street’ delivers an opportunity to understand why prison officers are leaving the service, particularly focusing on voluntary termination, medical retirement and discharge. This is timely work in the wake of the recently seen ‘exodus’ of experienced operational prison staff who are, crucially, well-versed in ‘jailcraft’. Interrogating the liminal space between employment in the prison service and what lies next in the lives of those who leave, this publication deals with important issues of transition, burnout and identity reorientation. Much like the resettlement and reintegration into the community of those who have served prison sentences, the return to ‘civvy street’ for former prison officers comes with its own unique set of personal challenges which require attention in the penological field. This publication will be of interest to academic, practitioner and policy maker communities and should be embraced by all with an interest in the impact of carceral spaces on people who work within them."
Helen Nichols, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull, UK
"Nixon and Woodward combine professional experience with scholarly knowledge to produce this book which is written with insight, empathy and nuance. It is a great read for criminology students and scholars and for those who seek to understand the realities of working in prison better."
Francis Pakes, Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth, UK
Notă biografică
Sarah Nixon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Winchester, UK. Her research interests include desistance and peer support programmes within prison and community settings, the impact of desistance education on the working practices of prison officers, and autoethnographic research around being a gay female prison officer and experiences with suicide/self-harm and trauma. Sarah previously worked as a prison officer for six years at a category ‘B’ adult male prison in England and is a member of the Prison Research Network and the Pracademic Network in conjunction with De Montfort University.
Darren Woodward is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Arden University, UK. His research explores desistance from crime, prisons and the experiences of people involved in criminal justice. Before entering teaching and academia, Darren spent 17 years as a prison officer, working at two large prisons in England in various capacities, including landing officer, offender supervisor, and offending behaviour facilitator. Darren is also a member of the Pracademic Network in conjunction with De Montfort University.
Darren Woodward is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Arden University, UK. His research explores desistance from crime, prisons and the experiences of people involved in criminal justice. Before entering teaching and academia, Darren spent 17 years as a prison officer, working at two large prisons in England in various capacities, including landing officer, offender supervisor, and offending behaviour facilitator. Darren is also a member of the Pracademic Network in conjunction with De Montfort University.
Descriere
Role Exit Within Prison Officers: Returning to ‘Civvy Street’ explores the reasons why prison officers leave His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) England and Wales and examines the processes and trajectories involved in returning back to civilian life, which is referred to as ‘civvy street’.