The Training of Prison Governors

Download or read book The Training of Prison Governors written by P.A.J. Waddington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1983, examines in detail the training of the key group of people within the British prison system: prison governors. It shows how problems, endemic to the prison system, influences their training; how staff seek to construct a coherent training course and how recruits struggle to come to terms with their ambiguous new role. It describes how attitudes towards the job changed during the training period and argues that the lack of a clear role-image prevented the adoption of a common occupational culture.