Liebling, A. and Laws, B. and Crewe, B. and Auty, K. and Schmidt, B. and Kant, D. and Jarman, Ben and Gardom, J. and Williams, R. and Cope, A. and Morey, M. (2019) HMP Whitemoor - MQPL+ Report. Technical Report. University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)
Abstract
HMP Whitemoor is a high-security establishment accommodating a complex population. It acts as a national resource for both CSC and segregation unit prisoners. The staff team are highly committed to the prison, describe strong relationships with their line management, and express very positive attitudes towards both the current and outgoing governors. There is no doubt that the atmosphere at HMP Whitemoor had improved slightly but significantly since the 2012 MQPL report, and very significantly since the 2009 study (Liebling et al 2011). These improvements reflect considerable effort, innovation and hard work. There was more talk, considerable activity, and far less overt tension, anger or `charge' observed. Prisoners smiled and were sometimes naturally boisterous in ways that did not appear to generate anxiety in us, in staff or their peers. There was plenty of `positive noise' and movements around the prison felt good-natured. The small, but significant, change in the overall prisoner quality of life score on a scale of 1-10 from 4.56 in 2012 to 5.16 in 2019 is indicative of these improvements.2 The change from 4.49 in 2009 to 5.16 in 2019 is clearly significant.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | high-security prisons, hmp whitemoor, measuring the quality of prison life, moral climate, mqpl |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Crime & Justice Policy Research, Institute for |
| Depositing User: | Ben Jarman |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2023 11:10 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/49355 |
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