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Prison Service Journal: 257
The latest issue of Prison Service Journal, co-edited by Dr Jamie Bennett and Dr David Maguire, explores the topic of sex and gender in prisons and wider criminal justice policy and practice.
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Masculinities, hegemony, and structural violence
Health inequalities continue to be a pressing issue for governments and communities in the Western developed nations. Recent evidence continues to highlight the prevalence of inequities in morbidity (experience of illness over the lifecourse) and mortality (death rate) and suggest that, despite...
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Getting Real About Gangs
Simon Hallsworth and Tara Young debunk some current myths about youth and gangs in the UK. Following the brutal murder of two women in Birmingham in what was styled as a gang shooting, Britain has been gripped by gang fever. Where the street robber was the folk devil par excellence , it would now...
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From criminal justice to social justice
This is an edited version of an article that appears in the June 2010 issue of Criminal Justice Matters. It summarises...