Prison Service Journal: 238

This edition of Prison Service Journal reflects the liberal-humane values that have always been supported and advocated through this publication.

Prison Service Journal is concerned with contributing to better practice, not necessarily in terms of greater efficiency or management control, but in terms of the role that prisons have in wider social justice.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Couscous in Tilburg Prison: Food Narratives and the Quality of Prison Life in a Belgian-Dutch Prison, by Dr An-Sofie Vanhouche, Dr Amy B. Smoyer and Dr Linda Kjaer Minke
• Family Matters: A critical examination of family visits for imprisoned mothers and their families, by Dr Natalie Booth
• A qualitative study of imprisoned fathers: Separation and the impact on relationships with their children, by Dr Geraldine Akerman, Charlie Arthur and Harley Levi
• Prisoner HIV Peer Educators as Wounded Healers: When You Take the Woman out of Prison, You don’t Need to Take ‘Prison’ Out of the Woman, by Dr Kimberly Collica-Cox
• Evaluating the Efficacy of Core Creative Psychotherapies within Therapeutic Communities at HMP Grendon, by Natalie Herrett
• What does publicly available research submitted to the Scottish Prison Service Research Access and Ethics Committee (2012-2016), tell us about the distinct nature of Imprisonment in Scotland?, by Dr Matthew Maycock, Debbie Pratt and Dr Katrina Morrison

Book reviews:

• Peace Inside – A Prisoner's Guide to Meditation, by Sam Settle (Ed) (reviewed by Casper Thigpen)
• Sexual Offenders – Personal Construct Theory and Deviant Sexual Behaviour, by James Horley (reviewed by Darren Woodward)
• Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating theory and research into evidence-based practice, by Paula Brough, Jennifer Brown and Amanda Biggs (reviewed by Paul Crossey)