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Assignment Task
Choose ONE of the following to complete for your assessment:
1. In their daily work, how do prison officers treat prisoners with dignity and care?
2. Describe the importance of restorative justice in comparison to traditional criminal justice
practices.
3. Evaluate how the police and the CPS work together to ensure justice is upheld.
STRUCTURE OF ESSAY
Introduction:
● Park procedural justice and due process the professional standards and statements
purpose
● multi agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA)
Body:
● Prison Officer
● Role
● Training
● Code of conduct for staff and professional standards
● Prison rules for prison staff
● Prison service institution
● Prison discipline structure
● Human rights act
● Parkers procedural justice
● Mandela rues
Counter arguments:
● Punishment
● Stigmatisation
● Stereotyping
● Over crowding Chief Inspector of prisons annual report 2003/200)
● Lack of educational opportunities
● Desistance theory
● Dignity and care
● Human rights
● sykes five pains of imprisonment
● Sexual orientation
Cite atleast 15 academic sources/references
Break the question
Role of prison officers, human rights, theory of punishment , pains of imprisonment, security.
List the positives and then follow up with a critique of the negatives. Labelling theory, desistance
theory (shad marooner)
Due process, dignity care, prison rules visitiation, mandela rules, human rights legislation..
Begin with Packers theory
Then however people are punished… stigmatisation, desistance theory (shadd maruna) in light
of the prison directors
Conclude whilst all these process that people are treated with dignity and care, the negatives
negate the positives which will require a good rehabilitation theory, restorative justice approach.
