Publication
Prison Service Journal: 232
Friday, 21 July 2017
This edition, guest edited by Dr Alana Barton and Professor Alyson Brown profiles often unheard voices and experiences in the prison system, past and present.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment, by Dr Alana Barton and Professor Alyson Brown
- Learning to Fail? Prisoners with Special Educational Needs, by Dr Alana Barton and Anita Hobson
- Disability and the Victorian Prison: Experiencing Penal Servitude, by Dr Helen Johnston and Dr Jo Turner
- Feigning Insanity in Late-Victorian Britain, by Dr Jade Shepherd
- Yesterday’s Heroes, Today’s Villains? Former military personnel in prison, by Julie T Davies
- Hidden diversity in interwar convict incarceration, by Professor Alyson Brown
- The Criminal Justice System and Black People in Victorian Britain, by Jeffrey Green
- An exception too far: ‘gentleman’ convicts and the 1878–9 Penal Servitude Acts Commission, by Ben Bethell
- Public and private perceptions of Victorian respectability – the life and times of a ‘Gentleman Lag’, by Dr David J Cox