Title: The working lives of prison managers : global change, local culture and individual agency in the late modern prison /
Authors: Bennett, Jamie
Year: 2016
Subjects: Prison wardens England.; Prison administration England.; Prison administration; Prison wardens; England
Contents: A new approach to understanding prison managers -- 'It just happened': becoming a prison manager -- 'I wouldn't ask you to do something I wouldn't do myself' ; prison managers and prison officer culture -- 'Our core business': prison managers, hard performance monitoring and managerialism -- 'They've got an axe to grind': prison managers, soft performance monitoring and managerialism -- 'We haven't quite been turned into robots yet' : the role of individuality and subjectivity in prison management -- The hidden injuries of prison management -- Prison managerialism and beyond