Prison Service Journal 270

This edition offers a diverse mix of articles, interviews and book reviews, on a range of themes and empirical research.

In this edition:

• Editorial
• The Use of Theoretical Frameworks of Emotion to Address Gender Disparity in Criminal Justice Practice: Emotional Investments in Desistance, by Dr Lauren Hall, Dr Linnéa Österman and Dr Lyndsey Harris
• The Administrative Disenfranchisement of Prisoners in England and Wales, by Dr Gregory Davies and Dr Robert Jones
• Effective Communication: The effect of Developmental Language Disorder on young people involved in the criminal justice system, by Alison Coyne
• Invisible Women: Understanding women’s experiences of long-term imprisonment, by Claudia Vince and Emily Evison
• Measuring the Impact of Perceived Occupational Adversity on the Wellbeing of Community Corrections Professionals: International Findings, by Jeffrey Pfeifer and Teagan Connop-Galer
• ‘The quality of mercy is not strained’: Shakespearean theatre in HMP Stafford, by Dr Rowan Mackenzie
• Interview with Pia Sinha, CEO of Prison Reform Trust, interviewed by Dr Susie Hulley
• Serving the Courts, Believing in Others Until They Believe in Themselves, and Quiet Successes. An Interview with The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, Prisons Minister, interviewed by Dr Amy Ludlow

Book reviews:

• The Older Prisoner, by Deite Humblet (reviewed by Karen Harrison)
• Doing Indefinite Time: An Ethnography of Long-Term Imprisonment in Switzerland, by Irene Marti (reviewed by Lynn Saunders OBE)
• The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral communication and men convicted of sex offenses, by Alice Levins (reviewed by Karen Harrison)