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
