Alison Liebling on Successful Prisons

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Alison Liebling on Successful Prisons is written by Alison Liebling and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1529736021 (ISBN 10) and 9781529736021 (ISBN 13).

About this Podcast, What makes a good prison? For Alison Liebling, a criminologist at the University of Cambridge and the director of the Institute of Criminology's Prisons Research Centre, the answer is the existence and the practice of trust. Liebling has years of going into dozens of individual lockups and believes that good prisons are possible. "A good prison," she details, "is one where prisoners feel safe and the environment is not threatening--and therefore they can concentrate on their own personal development." In this podcast, Liebling discusses her ongoing research in the prison environment. In methodological terms Liebling has adopted an appreciative inquiry approach, which she came to almost accidentally while trying to discover a way to describe what works in a prison and how prisons differ from each other. Appreciative inquiry seeks to identify what is working well, analyze why it is working well, and then support people or organizations in building on these self-determined positives. "So instead of telling me about your offending," she would ask, "tell me something you're most proud of."