Prison Service Journal: 214

This is the second of two special editions of Prison Service Journal, looking at the relationship between prison and the public.

This edition is guest edited by Dr Alana Barton and Dr Alyson Brown.

In this edition:

• Editorial Comment: The Prison and the Public, by Dr Alana Barton and Dr Alyson Brown
• Review of ‘The Prison and the Public’ Conference Edge Hill University, Wednesday 27 March 2013, by Holly White, Lindsey Ryan, Chris Wadsworth and Phil Williams
• Chapter and Verse: The Role of Creating Writing in Reducing Re-offending, by Michael Crowley
• Free to Write: A Case Study in the Impact of Cultural History Research and Creative Writing Practice, by Dr Tamsin Spargo and Hannah Priest
• Talking Justice: Building vocal public support for prison reform, by Katy Swaine Williams and Janet Crowe
• Challenging Perceptions: Considering the Value of Public Opinion, by Rachel Forster and Liz Knight
• Repression and Revolution: Representations of Criminal Justice and Prisons in Recent Documentaries, by Dr Jamie Bennett
• How the public sphere was privatized and why civil society could reclaim it, by Mary S Corcoran
• Artist or Offender?: Braving the Mirror, by Robin Baillie
• Civic re-engagements amongst former prisoners, by Gill Buck

Film review and book reviews (all reviews in this edition by Dr Jamie Bennett):

• Everyday (2012), Michael Winterbottom (Director)
• Critique and dissent: An anthology to mark 40 years of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, by Joanna Gilmore, J M Moore and David Scott (Eds)
• Rethinking social exclusion: The end of the social?, by Simon Winslow and Steve Hall
• Criminal justice and neoliberalism, by Emma Bell
• Why prison?, by David Scott (Ed)