- Porridge, by Dick Clement and Ron la Frenais
- Residential Treatment and its Effects on Delinquency, by D B Cornish and R V Clarke (reviewed by M R J Gander)
- Community Treatment and Social Control, by Paul Lerman (reviewed by Peter C Bibby)
- Rehabilitation and Deviance, by Philip Bean (reviewed by Brian Fellowes)
- The Use of Imprisonment, edited by Sean McConville (reviewed by John Cape)
- Criminal Reactions: The Labelling Perspective, by Richard V Ericson (reviewed by Mark Beeson)
- Young Offenders and their Social Work, by Richard V Ericson (reviewed by R Jarrett)
- The Organisation of Crime, by Mary McIntosh (reviewed by John Staples)
- The Professional Fence, by Carl B Klockers (reviewed by Dennis Humpleby)
- Crime in Britain Today, by Clive Borrell and Brian Cashnella (reviewed by F G Davies)
- Crime and Criminal Justice, edited by J Gardner and M Mulkey (reviewed by R L Mawby)
- Gulag Archipelago, Volume II, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (reviewed by John Shergold)
- Against our Will: Men, Women and Rape, by Susan Bronwmiller (reviewed by Dr A D Bentley)
- Prostitutes, by Jeremy Sandford (reviewed by Rev John Knight)
- Borstal in Ireland, by Nial Osborough (reviewed by Duncan McLaughlan)
- The Story of a Prison, by Peter Southerton (reviewed by R A Richards)
- Families and Friends of Men in Prison, by Standley L Brodsky (reviewed by J W Tracey)
- Law, Justice and Politics, by Gavin Drewry (reviewed by Dai Curtis)
- Successful Supervision, by James White (reviewed by E R Griffiths)
- Processing People, edited by John B McKinlay (reviewed by W J Abbot)
- Back from Broadmoor, by Peter Thompson (reviewed by Hugh Searle)
- The Most Wanted Man – Ronald Biggs, by Colin MacKenzie (reviewed by M S Newton)
- The Southfield Papers (reviewed by John Cape)
- Prison Architecture, by the United Nations Social Defence Research Institute (reviewed by C A G Poole)
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