A special edition with a focus on Prisons and the Law.
Articles in this edition include a speech by Lord Woolf on punishment, Professor Martin Wasik on the Sentencing Advisory Panel, Martin Narey on human rights and an interview with Anne Owers.
Also in this edition: John Croft on on the Home Office Children’s Department Inspectorate and Jamie Bennett on prions during the Cambodian genocide.
In this edition:
- Comment
- A Little Legal Knowledge: a dangerous thing or a key management tool?, by Nicola Padfield
- Making Punishments Fit the Needs of Society, by Lord Woolf
- Prison and the Magistrates’ Court: a Case for the Defence, by Dr Eric Cullen
- The Work of the Sentencing Advisory Panel, by Professor Martin Wasik
- Prisons and the Law: National Rules and Local Discretion, by Stephen Shaw
- Investigations into Deaths in Prison Custody, by Steven Bramley
- S-21: The Heart of the Cambodian Nightmare, by Jamie Bennett
- Human Rights, Decency and Social Exclusion, by Martin Narey
- The Home Office Children’s Department Inspectorate 1948-1970, by John Croft
- Non-violent Communication for Prison Officers building value-based relationships, by Patricia Dannahy and Josephine McHale
- Widening the Net, by Steve Taylor
- A Personal Experience of Tagging, by Francoise Richardson
- Interview with Anne Owers, interviewed by Nigel Hancock
Book reviews
- The Prisons Handbook 2002, by Mark Leech and Deborah Cheney (reviewed by Steve Taylor)
- The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders, by Iain Crow (reviewed by Phil Willmot)
- Captive Audience: Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons, by Dr Yvonne Jewkes (reviewed by Steve Taylor)
- English Prisons: An Architectural History, by Allan Brodie, Jane Croom and James O Davies (reviewed by Steve Taylor)
