Prison Service Journal: 199

The articles in this edition of Prison Service Journal, guest edited by Dr Michael Fiddler, challenge conventional cinematic and literary representations of imprisonment.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment: Alternative representations of imprisonment, by Dr Michael Fiddler
• Alternative Representations of the Prison and Imprisonment – Comparing Dominant Narratives in the News Media and in Popular Fictional Texts, by Dr Tony Kearon
• Porridge: ‘A Night In’, by Dr Helen Johnston
• A Short Film About Killing (1988) (Dir Krzysztof Kieslowksi), by Jamie Bennett
• Ruth Ellis in the Condemned Cell: Voyeurism and Resistance, by Dr Lizzie Seal
• Penal Hell-Holes and Dante’s Inferno, by Professor Yvonne Jewkes
• Estação Carandiru, by Dr Sacha Darke
• A contrast in lives? White-collar offenders in prison, by Dr Ben Hunter
• Sexuality, Criminality and the Women’s Prison: Pat Arrowsmith’s Somewhere Like This, by Dr Abigail Rowe
• Singing at Yarmouth Gaol: Christian Instruction and Inmate Culture in the Nineteenth Century, by Dr Helen Rogers
• Dark Tourism and the Modern Prison, by Dr Alana Barton and Dr Alyson Brown
• ‘When the prison no longer stands there’: Donovan Wylie’s photographic project ‘The Maze’, by Dr Michael Fiddler
• Interview: Catherine Yeatman, interviewed by Dr Michael Fiddler

Book reviews (all reviews in this edition by Jamie Bennett):

• Looking for Laura: Public criminology and hot news, by David Wilson
• Media and crime (Second edition), by Yvonne Jewkes
• Public criminology?, by Ian Loader and Richard Sparks