Crisis and change in the British and Dutch prison services
Subtitle: understanding crisis-reform processes
By: by Sandra L. Resodihardjo.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754675495
Subjects: Prisons -- Great Britain.; Prisons -- Netherlands.; Prison administration -- Great Britain.; Prison administration -- Netherlands.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Crisis and reform in the public sector; value: The crisis-reform thesis: how crises can lead to reform; value: Prison systems : pre-crisis descriptions; value: The Dutch prison service : cell-shortages and escapes (1992-1993); value: Riots and reform in England (1990-1991); value: The escapes from Whitemoor and Parkhurst (1994-1995); value: Recognizing patterns of reform; value: Alternative paths to reform.