Prison Service Journal: 217

This edition includes articles based on the 2014 Perrie Lectures, which took the title of ‘Making sense of life sentences’.

Also in this edition: articles on the topic of open prisons and release on temporary licence.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• A prison without walls: Alternative incarceration in the late age of social democracy, by Victor L Shammas
• Open prisons: A Policy-maker’s Perspective. Chris Potter, interviewed by Chris Gundersen
• Open prisons: A Governor’s Perspective. Sara Pennington, interviewed by Dr Ben Crewe
• Open prisons: An ex-prisoner perspective. Dr Andy Aresti, interviewed by Dr Sacha Darke
• Managing ‘Administrative Inconvenience’: The Political Economy of Temporary Release, by Dr Leonidas K Cheliotis
• Life Sentences in Law and Practice, by Dr Nicola Padfield
• Reforming Life Sentences, by Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith
• Life sentences in custody and beyond, by Lucy Gampell
• Interview: Juliet Lyon, interviewed by Paul Addicott

Book reviews:

• Inside Immigration Detention, by Mary Bosworth (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
• A Good Man Inside – Diary of a White Collar Prisoner, by Will Phillips (reviewed by Chris Gundersen)
• Doing Probation Work, by Rob C Mawby and Anne Worrall (reviewed by Kelly Richards)
• Shades of Deviance. A primer on crime, deviance and social harm, by Rowland Atkinson (Ed) (reviewed by Darren Woodward)
• Juvenile Offending, by Thom Brooks (Ed) (reviewed by Paul Crossey)