Jamie Bennett

Dr. Jamie Bennett is an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh Law School, with over 100 publications in criminology. His career bridges academic research and practical experience in the UK's HM Prison & Probation Service, currently serving as Group Director for Contracted Prisons while maintaining active research roles. He previously held multiple prison governor positions at HMP Long Lartin, Grendon, Springhill, and Morton Hall.

• Editor of Prison Service Journal (17 years)
• Trustee of Bromley Trust
• Research Associate at Oxford University's Centre for Criminology

His research focuses on prison management cultures, media representations of corrections, therapeutic community effectiveness, and managerialism in criminal justice. Recent work examines pandemic impacts on prison governance and ethical dimensions of correctional labor.

• Co-edited Handbook on Prisons (2016)
• Author of Managing Prisons: Managerialism, Austerity and Moral Blindness (2024)

Publications reveal interdisciplinary engagement with:

• Prison media studies
• Therapeutic community research
• Managerial ethics in corrections
• Documentary analysis
• Occupational sociology of prison work
• Policy responses to institutional crises