Prison Service Journal: 234

A general edition of Prison Service Journal, covering both current issues and more enduring, intractable challenges within the criminal justice system.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Suffering in Silence: The unmet needs of d/Deaf prisoners, by Dr Laura Kelly
• The illicit economy in prisons: A new measure of biddability (BIDSCALE) to predict involvement in prison illicit economy and its consequences, by Alan Hammill, Jane Ogden and Emily Glorney
• Military veteran-offenders: Making sense of developments in the debate to inform service delivery, by Dr Katherine Albertson, Dr James Banks and Dr Emma Murray
• Should the public be listening to prison radio programmes? An exploration of prison radio in Sweden and North America, by Siobhann Tighe and Dr Victoria Knight
• Inspecting Prisons: Interview with Peter Clarke, interviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett

Book reviews:

• Cultural criminology: An invitation (Second edition), by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward and Jock Young (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
• The Justice Women: The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800–1970, by Stephen Wade (reviewed by Rachel Dixon-Goodall)
• The Monstering of Myra Hindley, by Nina Wilde (reviewed by Dr Karen Harrison)
• Josie, by Catherine Trimby (reviewed by Dr Karen Harrison)
• Regulating Judges: Beyond Independence and Accountability, by Richard Devlin and Adam Dodek (Eds) (reviewed by William Payne)