Publication
Prison Service Journal: 249
Monday, 27 April 2020
The second of a two-part special edition on understanding the past.
The first part was published in November 2019.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment, by Alyson Brown and Dr Alana Barton
- ‘Major H’ — the life and times of a Victorian Convict Prison governor, by David J. Cox and Joseph Hale
- ‘You cease to be a man’: masculinity and the ‘gentleman convict’, c.1870-1914, by Ben Bethell
- The rebellion of the ‘basement lecturers’: The Wandsworth Prison Disturbances of 1918-19, by Steve Illingworth
- A forestalled campaign and a forgotten tragedy: the prison suicide of Edward Spiers in 1930, by Alyson Brown
- Revisiting the Borstal experiment, c. 1902-1982, by Heather Shore
- The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience, edited by Anthony R. Beech, Adam J. Carter, Ruth E. Mann and Pia Rotshtein (reviewed by Aarohi Khare)
- The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil, by Phillip Zimbardo (reviewed by Paul Crossey)
- The Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety: Report on a Study of the Nursing Service of a General Hospital, by sabel Menzies-Lyth (reviewed by William Payne)