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"What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social and personal impact of prisons demands that we try to search for a better understanding of the evidence and ideas that have made prisons so ubiquitous. Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years' experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons." --

This text delivers a comprehensive overview of race and ethnicity across the criminal justice system. It unpacks terms such as 'race', 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' to equip students with a thorough understanding of this complex subject area. Featuring chapters by leading experts, Race and Criminal Justice provides a specialist introduction to each area of the criminal justice system, including police, prosecution, prisons and probation. It also features stimulating discussion of contemporary issues, such as criminal justice responses to refugees and asylum seekers, and the experiences of

Abstract: This article considers the implications for anti‐racist practice2 in probation and prisons of the development of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The development of anti‐racist work is considered in the context of an increasingly managerialist approach to criminal justice. Essentially, it is argued that the histories of racism and anti‐racist work in the prison and probation services, and the underpinnings of such work – that is, the individual and organisational characteristics that have influenced the respective identities of those agencies – are critical and undervalued factors in the current change process. This in turn has concerning implications for the development of an anti‐racist identity for NOMS.