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I. The Period from 1960 to 1979 I. The Period from 1960 to 1979
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17 A Comparison of British and American Policies for Managing Dangerous Prisoners: A Question of Legitimacy
Get accessRoy D. King is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the University of Wales. From 2004 to 2011 he taught at the Univeristy of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology where he remains a Visiting Research Fellow. His comparative research has focussed on prisons in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands, Russia, Romania and Brazil. He has been an advisor to both the prison service of England and Wales and the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, and has acted as a consultant for both the Council of Europe and Amnesty International. His publications include Albany Birth of a Prison-End of an Era (1977, with Elliot), The Future of the Prison System (1981, with Morgan), Prisons in Context (1994, edited with Maguire), The State of Our Prisons (1995, with McDermott) and Doing Research on Crime and Justice (2000, 2008, edited with Wincup) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a new analysis of the prison system in England and Wales.
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Published:07 July 2016
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Abstract
This essay traces the development of policies regarding difficult and dangerous prisoners in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present day. In essence policies about dangerous prisoners in the Unites States have been driven primarily by concerns about bad behaviors inside prisons control problems whereas in Britain the driving force has been fears about escapes security risks. Although control problems and security risks can and do sometimes overlap, it is argued that the two issues can be analyzed separately and have different solutions. Failure to distinguish clearly between security and control issues has bedeviled policies in both countries, sometimes seriously undermining the legitimacy of the system concerned, and led to misunderstandings on both sides of the Atlantic. The essay is organized in three chronological periods in the hope that moving the discussion between the two countries will better bring out the similarities and differences.
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