Managing prisons in a time of change provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved.
Dr Shane Bryans of Panopticon Consulting explains how prison governors have changed under external pressures, and examines a number of the factors that have been influential in changing their working environment in particular the changing status of prisoners and the development of the concept of prisoners’ rights, the increasing scrutiny by the press and politicians, and the introduction of risk management approaches.