Publication

Prison Service Journal: 220

Wednesday, 22 July 2015

This edition of Prison Service Journal offers an eclectic mix of articles revealing something of the penal spectrum as it touches upon prisons, youth imprisonment, the experience of state care, immigration detention and community punishment.

In this edition:

Book reviews:

  • Nursing in Criminal Justice Services, by Ann Norman and Elizabeth Walsh (reviewed by William Payne)
  • What works in therapeutic prisons: Evaluating Psychological Change in Dovegate Therapeutic Community, by Jennifer Brown, Sarah Miller, Sara Northey and Darragh O’Neill Carey (reviewed by Richard Shuker and Lilli Grigg)
  • Making crime television: Producing entertaining representations of crime for television broadcast, by Anita Lam (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
  • Prisoners, solitude, and time, by Ian O’Donnell (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
  • Letters to a Lifer. The Boy ‘Never to be released’, by Cindy Sandford (reviewed by Dr Karen Harrison)