This edition includes articles based on the 2014 Perrie Lectures, which took the title of ‘Making sense of life sentences’.
Prison Service Journal
Joint-Editors
Dr Flora Fitzalan Howard KTA Research and Consulting
Dr Rachel Gibson HM Prison and Probation Service
Dr Marcia Morgan HM Prison and Probation Service
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Prison Service Journal, c/o Print Shop Manager, HMP Leyhill, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8HL
3 November 2014
The articles in this edition consider how the relationships between prisons and outside worlds are constituted and how the interaction between them can influence and shape one another.
26 August 2014
This edition of Prison Service Journal, guest edited by Paul Crossey, take a look at the moral, cultural, societal and psychological implications of the opening, closing and operating of prisons.
7 July 2014
This is the second of two special editions of Prison Service Journal, looking at the relationship between prison and the public.
14 May 2014
This edition of Prison Service Journal, organised around the theme of breaking the cycle of reconviction, raises broader questions about occupational and organisational culture as well as the philosophy of punishment.
6 March 2014
This edition of Prison Service Journal, guest edited by Dr Andrew M Jefferson and Dr Tomas Max Martin, looks at everyday prison governance in a number of African countries.
3 January 2014
The 2013 Perrie Lectures series, with the theme of ‘Contraction in an age of expansion’, form the core of the articles in this edition of Prison Service Journal.
19 November 2013
This is the first of two special editions of Prison Service Journal, looking at the relationship between prison and the public.
9 September 2013
This edition of Prison Service Journal includes an article by Terence Morris, who died before the edition was published. It is dedicated to his pioneering and principled work on prisons.
1 July 2013
This special edition of Prison Service Journal focuses on the work of HMP Whatton, a prison which specialises in the management of men who have committed sexual offences.
14 May 2013
The articles in this edition highlight that prisons around the world face a series of similar problems, including staff-prisoner relationships, the impact on families and the importing of social problems into the prison.
7 March 2013
This edition of Prison Service Journal includes four articles that address aspects of diversity that are arguably less visible and less discussed but nevertheless are of crucial importance.