This edition of Prison Service Journal provides a strong mix of thoughtful and stimulating contributions from academics and practitioners.
It sets out some challenges that prisons face but also gives some sense of optimism about the innovation and imagination of those working in prisons.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment
- Drug mules in the international cocaine trade: diversity and relative deprivation, by Dr Jennifer Fleetwood
- A Short-Term Evaluation of the RAPt Alcohol Dependency Treatment Programme, by Gail Jones and Kim Hindle
- Prison, Education and Film, by Deirdre O’Neil
- Why Our Beliefs Matter in Offender Management, by Professor Shadd Maruna
- The ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’, by Trevor Williams
- Managing offenders through Probation Services, by Beverley Thompson
- Interview: Stephen Shaw, interviewed by Martin Kettle
- Report on the first cohort of prisoners that completed treatment in the Fens Unit, Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Unit at HMP Whitemoor, by Jacqui Saradjian, Naomi Murphy and Helen Casey
- Prison staff occupational health and safety and its relationship with inmate health: A review, by Professor Michael W. Ross
- The Dynamics of Desistance: Charting Pathways through change, by Deidre Healy (reviewed by Steve Hall)
- Release from Prison. European policy and practice, by Nicola Padfield, Dirk van Zyl Smith and Frieder Dunkel (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Karen Harrison)
- Managing High-Risk Sex Offenders in the Community, by Karen Harrison (Ed) (reviewed by Phil Jarvis)
- Sex offenders and preventative detention: Politics, policy and practice, by Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
- Anti-social behaviour orders: A culture of control?, by Jane Donoghue (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
