Prison Service Journal: 201

All of the articles in this edition of Prison Service Journal provide a means through which the relationship between prisons and society can be understood.

The prison stands as a monument to the world we have created, founded upon our collective values and practices.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Cleanliness, Spaces and Masculine Identity in an Adult Male Prison, by Jennifer Sloan
• The experiences of women working in a male therapeutic community prison, by Neelama Kumari, Laura Caulfield and Michelle Newberry
• Women and Jail: Life in the Gendered Cage, by Dr Barbara Rockell
• Obituary – Kathleen McDermott: Prisons Researcher, by Professor Roy King
• Guarding the ghosts of time: Working personalities and the prison officer-prisoner relationship, by Dr David Scott
• ‘Frustrations within’: Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), by Paul Addicott
• ‘Resettlement provision for children and young people’ and ‘The care of looked after children in custody’: Findings from two Inspectorate thematic reviews, by Hayley Cripps and Amy Summerfield
• The Management of Sexual Offenders in the Community: Austerity, Engagement, Interaction and The ‘Big Society’, by Kieran McCartan
• Car Crime and Offending Behaviour: Ex-Offender Perspectives, by Dr Tina G. Patel
• From small protests to great riots grow: a critical commentary of the interconnection between race, class and economy in the 2011 August riots, by Ian Fox-Williams and Ali Malik
• Interview: Tim Newburn, interviewed by Jamie Bennett

Book reviews:

• International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Research, by Douglas Boer, Reinhard Eher, Leam Craig, Michael Miner, and Friedemann Praffflin (Eds) (reviewed by Anne-Marie McAlinden)
• Dovegate: A Therapeutic Prison in a Private Prison and Developments in Therapeutic Work with Personality Disordered Offenders, by Dr Eric Cullen and Dr Judith Mackenzie (reviewed by Tim Newell)
• Prisoners’ Rights: Principles and practice, by Susan Eaton (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
• Police culture in a changing world, by Bethan Loftus (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)