Table of Contents

Forward: Jane L. Ireland (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Section 1: Systems

Chapter 1: Frameworks for Punishment: Implications on 21st Century Corrective Services

Piero Moraro

Chapter 2: The use of the death sentence

Robert Johnson and Esther Matthews

Chapter 3: Wrongful convictions and the implications for Corrective Services

Michele Ruyters, Gregory Stratton and Monique Moffa

Chapter 4: Prison overcrowding: Examining the problem through the prism of the European Court of Human Rights

Gaëtan Cliquennois and Philip Birch

Chapter 5: The Digital Prison: Towards an ethics of technology

Victoria Knight and Steven Van De Steene

Chapter 6: Privatising Corrections: Rethinking the issue

Jane Andrew, Max Baker, Christine Cooper and Jonny Tweedie

Chapter 7: A forgotten profession: The need to invest in prison officers

Andrew Clements and Gail Kinman

Section 2: People

Chapter 8: Children in care: The criminalisation of children

Emma Colvin, Alison Gerard and Andrew McGrath

Chapter 9: Young People in corrections

Laura Abrams

Chapter 10: Ageing offenders in the prison environment

Rhonda Shaw

Chapter 11: Working with Trans communities in corrective services

Roberto H. Potter and Stephen T. Holmes

Chapter 12: Prison Gangs

Camila Nunes Dias , Michelle Butler and Gavin Slade

Chapter 13: Taking Stock of Sexual Assault in Correctional Facilities: Is it Time to Apply the

Evidence to Reduce Risk?

Eileen Ahlin

Section 3: Service Delivery

Chapter 14: Mental Health and Services in Prisons

Daniel Semenza and Meghan Noisky

Chapter 15: Adopting a ‘Creative Corrections’ approach for offender treatment programs

Louise A. Sicard and Philip Birch

Chapter 16: Dealing with radicalisation in corrective services: A global issue

Nathan Thompson

Chapter 17: Challenges for managing offenders in the community in the 21st Century: Global

Perspectives

Malcolm Pearse

Chapter 18: Transforming Rehabilitation: A failed experiment in throughcare and offender

reintegration

Matthew Cracknell and Julie Trebilcock

Chapter 19: Desistance-Focused Practice: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Offending Behaviour

and Building Social Integration

Deirdre Healey

About the Author

Philip Birch, is an Associate Professor in Criminology & Policing in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Louise Sicard is a Sessional Lecturer in Criminology & Policing in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia.