Sport in Prison

<p>Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up in a cycle of offending and imprisonment by offering an alternative means of excitement and risk taking to that gained through engaging in offending behaviour or by providing an alternative social network and access to positive role models. </p> <p>This is the first book to explore the role of sport in prisons and its subsequent impact on rehabilitation and behavioural change. The book draws on research literature on the beneficial role of sport in community settings and on prison cultures and regimes across disciplines including criminology psychology sociology and sport studies as well as original qualitative and quantitative data gathered from research in prisons. <i>Sport in Prison </i>is essential reading for any advanced student researcher policy-maker or professional working in the criminal justice system with an interest in prisons offending behaviour rehabilitation sport development or the wider social significance of sport.</p>