Publication

Prison Service Journal: 198

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

The articles in this edition of Prison Service Journal range from the narrow to the broad, from contemporary to historical and from the local to the global.

In this edition:

Book reviews:

  • The power of positive deviance: How unlikely innovators solve the world’s toughest problems, by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
  • Debating for a Change: Improving prison life through prisoner/staff working groups, by Andrew Fleming-Williams and Anna Gordon (reviewed by Tim Newell)
  • Victims and Policy Making: a comparative perspective, by Matthew Hall (reviewed by Dr Rachel Bell)
  • Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire, by Lynne A. Haney (reviewed by Aylwyn Walsh)