This book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending.

Chapter 1: Prisons, prison officers and prisoner rehabilitation

Chapter 2: Methodology: A Literature-based enquiry

Chapter 3: Prison climates

Chapter 4: Treatment readiness

Chapter 5: Individual needs

Chapter 6: Challenges and barriers to practice

Chapter 7: Review conclusions

Chapter 8: Using a Declarative Mapping Approach in Future Prison-Related Research

Chapter 9: Positionality

Laura M. Small joined His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service in 2019 as a participant in the Unlocked Graduates Leadership Programme. She worked as a prison officer at a women's prison whilst completing her master's degree in Leadership and Custodial Environments and undertaking the research that forms the basis for this book. In 2021, Laura began her training to be a probation officer before becoming a policy advisor for the probation service in 2023. She continues to be committed to improving rehabilitation efforts and our criminal justice system more widely.

Paul M.W. Hackett is the originator of the Declarative Mapping Approach to social science research and is Visiting Research Professor at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria, a Professor of ethnography and research methods at Emerson College, UK, Visiting Scholar at the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk, in the School of Health Studies and the Department of Criminology. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.