Publication
Prison Service Journal: 227
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
This edition of Prison Service Journal speaks to a number of current issues in criminal justice and penal practice.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment
- Prison Building ‘Does Size matter? A Re-Assessment, by Dr Iolo Madoc-Jones, Dr Emyr Williams, Dr Caroline Hughes and Joanne Turley
- An exploration of prisoners’ perceptions of the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme: The role of legitimacy, by Zarek Khan
- Human Rights and Their Application in Prisons, by Bronwyn Naylor
- European oversight of Belgian, French and British prison policies, by Gaëtan Cliquennois and Martine Herzog-Evans
- Legal highs and their use in New Zealand: a critical analysis of New Zealand Drug policy, by Dr Fiona Hutton
- Mass incarceration: the juggernaut of American penal expansionism, by Dr Michael Teague
- Interview: Moosa Gora, interviewed by Ray Taylor
- The Working Lives of Prison Managers: Global Change, Local Culture and Individual Agency in the Late Modern Prison, by Jamie Bennett (reviewed by Professor Andrew Coyle)
- Punishment in Europe: A Critical Anatomy of Penal Systems, by Vincenzo Ruggiero and Mick Ryan (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Sacha Darke)
- Offender Supervision in Europe, by Fergus McNeill and Kristel Beyens (Eds) (reviewed by Ian Bickers)
- Preventing Violence in Australia: Policy, Practice and Solutions, by Andrew Day and Ephrem Fernandez (Eds) (reviewed by Steve Hall)
- Youth and Crime (4th Edition), by John Muncie (reviewed by Paul Crossey)
- Different Crimes Different Criminals. Understanding, treating and preventing criminal behavior, by Doris MacKenzie, Laure O’Neill, Wendy Povitsky and Summer Acevedo (reviewed by Sarah Coop)
- Offending and Desistance – The Importance of Social Relations, by Beth Weaver (reviewed by Darren Woodward)
- Reconceptualising Penality: A comparative perspective of punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand, by Claire Hamilton (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
- When the Innocent are Punished: The Children of Imprisoned Parents, by Peter Scharff Smith (reviewed by Dr Anthony Donnelly-Drummond)