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© British Association of Social Workers

Reception to Prison

JONATHAN BRADSHAW, DAVID EMERSON and DAVID HAXBY

Jonathan Bradshaw graduated in 1967 from Trinity College, Dublin, and took a Master's degree in Social Administration at York in 1971. Since 1970 he has been a lecturer in Social Administration in the Department of Social Administration and Social Work at the University of York.

David Emerson was engaged for a number of years in Adult Education in West Africa and the Far East. In 1970 he completed a Diploma in Social Administration at York, and then worked as a Research Fellow on a child care project in the Institute for Social and Economic Research at York. He is currently Tutor in Health Service Administration at the University of York.

David Haxby read classics at Cambridge, and after completing the Bristol applied social studies course in 1961, worked in the Bristol probation service. In 1965 he began working for the National Association of Probation Officers, later becoming the General Secretary. Since 1969 be has been a lecturer in Social Administration in the Department of Social Administration and Social Work at the University of York

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The paper is concerned with the admission process to prison. The paper begins by outlining some of the current views on the effects of imprisonment and the adjustment of the inmate to prison life. Gofiman in particular has identified the important part played by admission procedures in depriving the individual of his personal identity and immersing him in the institutional system.The authors studied the admission procedures at two penal establishments to see how far these showed the characteristics described by Gofrman as being 'fairly standard in total institutions'. The paper describes how the study was conducted, and gives an account of the admission procedure at the institutions. In their findings the authors try to assess the impact of this system on the inmate, and its significance within the total social system of the institution. The study casts doubt on the general applicability of Goffman's hypothesis, but at the same time shows that the admission procedure has a potential for introducing the inmate to his new environment in a constructive way, which is not being realized within the present system


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