Publication
Prison Service Journal: 255
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
The latest edition of Prison Service Journal explores trauma and psychotherapy in prisons.
It is edited by Dr Jamie Bennett, in collaboration with Matt Wotton, a former senior civil servant and now a qualified psychotherapist, and Dr Roger Grimshaw, Research Director at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment
- Viewing Her Majesty's Prison Service through a Trauma-informed Lens, by Dr Alexandria Bradley
- Interview with Felicity de Zulueta, interview by Matt Wotton
- Trauma, Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Communities, by Richard Shuker
- Nothing works to reduce reoffending. Could psychological therapies be the answer?, By Matt Wotton
- My Story: listening to young people talking about the trauma and violence in their lives, by Dr Roger Grimshaw
- Interview with Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski, interviewed by Dr Marcia Morgan
- Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology, by J. Phillips, C. Westaby, A. Fowler and J. Waters (Eds) (reviewed by Lewis Simpson)
- Respect and Criminal Justice, by Gabriella Watson (reviewed by William Payne)
- Prisoners on Prison Films, by J. Bennett and V. Knight (reviewed by Dr Michael Fiddler)
- The Big Issue #1454, 12th March 2021, Special Edition ‘Locked Up in Lockdown’ (reviewed by William Payne)
Prison Service Journal Prize for Outstanding Article 2020
The editorial board of the Prison Service Journal is proud to announce that Dr Rod Earle, Senior Lecturer at The Open University, and Dr Bill Davies, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, have won the Prison Service Journal Prize for Outstanding Article 2020. Their article, Glimpses across 50 years of prison life from members of British Convict Criminology, appeared in edition 250.