Prison Service Journal: 194

The eclectic range of articles in this edition weave between policy and practice and attempt to draw these together.

This continues the work of Prison Service Journal in supporting and developing an approach to prison work as a craft, rather than a technical or mechanical process, where professionals are reflective about their practice and aspire to achieve high quality and ethical standards.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Class, discipline and philosophy: Contested visions in the early twentieth century, by Dr Alyson Brown
• The Corston Report: Reading Even Further Between the Lines, by Dr Karen Evans and Professor Sandra Walklate
• Media portrayals of female murder offenders, by Elizabeth A. Gurian
• ‘Mothering from the Inside’ – A Small Scale Evaluation of Acorn House, an Overnight Child Contact Facility at HMP Askham Grange, by Ben Raikes and Kelly Lockwood
• Learning from fraudsters’ accounts of their offending, by Professor Martin Gill
• Restorative practice in prisons: assessing the impact of the demise of the Inside Out Trust, by Dr Paul Gray and Dr Sam Wright
• Practice into Policy: The Needs of Elderly Prisoners in England and Wales, by Adrian Hayes and Professor Jenny Shaw
• Interview: Aubrey Fox, by Jamie Bennett

Book reviews:

• The Man They Couldn’t Hang: A Tale of Murder, Mystery and Celebrity. A play by Michael Crowley (reviewed by Ray Taylor)
• Female Sexual Offenders Theory, Assessment and Treatment, by Theresa A. Gannon and Franca Cortoni (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Karen Harrison)
• Criminal Justice in Scotland, by Hazel Croall, Gerry Mooney and Mary Munro (Eds) (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
• Crime and Risk, by Pat O’Malley (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)