The Voluntary Sector in Prisons Encouraging Personal and Institution

This volume examines how volunteers and non-profit programs encourage institutional change in prisons and offer individual support and services to people who are housed behind bars. Through a diverse set of chapters, including two that are co-written by c

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The Voluntary Sector in Prisons Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change Edited by LAURA S. ABRAMS, EMMA HUGHES, MICHELLE INDERBITZIN & ROSIE MEEK

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

Series Editors Ben Crewe Institute of Criminology University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Yvonne Jewkes Department of Criminology University of Leicester Leicester, UK Thomas Ugelvik University of Tromso - The Arctic Univer Tromso, Norway

Aim of the Series This is a unique and innovative series, the first of its kind dedicated entirely to prison scholarship. At a historical point in which the prison population has reached an all-time high, the series seeks to analyse the form, nature and consequences of incarceration and related forms of punishment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology provides an important forum for burgeoning prison research across the world.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14596

Laura S. Abrams • Emma Hughes • Michelle Inderbitzin • Rosie Meek Editors

The Voluntary Sector in Prisons Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change

Editors Laura S. Abrams Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California Los Angeles Culver City, California, USA

Emma Hughes Department of Criminology California State University, Fresno Fresno, California, USA

Michelle Inderbitzin Sociology, School of Public Policy Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Rosie Meek School of Law Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey, UK

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology ISBN 978-1-137-54214-4 ISBN 978-1-137-54215-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54215-1

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