The conflict of security and rehabilitation in the 1970s

Prisgrove, Peter
Published Date
Subject
Corrections
Rehabilitation
Prisoners
Series
Event proceedings and reports
Abstract

This seminar discusses the conflict of security and rehabilitation within correctional facilities. Participants comprise experienced prison officers whose job lies precisely at the point at which security and rehabilitation come into conflict.

Report on the seminar held in Canberra, 14-17 August 1974

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Participants
  • Programme
  • Conclusions and recommendations
    • Recruitment
    • Training
    • Career structure and promotion
    • Professional image
    • Role conflicts
    • Working conditions
    • Consultation
    • Community services
    • Classification
    • Institutional size and composition
    • Rehabilitation
    • Institutional programmes
    • Inmate discipline and prisoner committees
  • Appendix I
    • Reports of the workshops
      • Group A report

        A. Browne
      • Group B report

        J. Vagg
      • Group C report

        P. Bottomley
      • Group D report

        P. Reilly
  • Table 1
    • Seminar programme