Staff culture, use of authority and prisoner quality of life in public and private sector prisons

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-115

  Crewe, Ben ^a   Liebling, Alison ^a   Hulley, Susie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

authority; officer culture; prison privatization; prison staff

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355142003     PISSN: 00048658     EISSN: 18379273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004865810392681     Document Type: Article

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