The Voluntary Sector in Prisons

Laura S. Abrams is Professor of Social Welfareat the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, California, USA. She is the author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in theLife of Unit C (2013) and Life After Juvie: Young Men and Women on Desistance, Survival, andBecoming an Adult (forthcoming). Emma Hughes is Associate Professor ofCriminology at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of thebook Education in Prison: Studyingthrough Distance Learning (2012). She has contributed bookchapters on offender rehabilitation to edited volumes and previously lecturedat Birmingham City University, UK. Michelle Inderbitzin is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA. She is the lead author of the books Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective (2013) and Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (2015).Rosie Meek is Professor, CharteredPsychologist, and Head of the Law School at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.She is the author of Sport in Prison(2014) and is a Fulbright distinguished scholar, University ofCalifornia, San Diego, USA.