Prison Service Journal: 219

The articles in edition of Prison Service Journal reveal some of the core features of prison life: prisons as a reflection of an instrument of wider social power structures; the efforts to construct prisons as humane institutions, and; the ambition that prisons become places in which lives can be improved.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Denying the danger of difference: Notes on the pacification of inmate social relations in an era of ethnoracial diversity, by Victor L. Shammas
• Exploration of a transfemale prisoner’s experience of a Prison Therapeutic Community, by Sarah Disspain, Richard Shuker and Emma Wildgoose
• Becoming Visible: Gypsy Roma Travellers in Prison, by Dr Anthony Donnelly-Drummond
• Adaptation, the meaning of imprisonment and outcomes after release – the impact of the prison regime, by Dr Marguerite Schinkel
• Factors that determine the effectiveness of peer interventions in prisons in England and Wales, by Dr James Woodall, Professor Jane South, Professor Rachael Dixey and Dr Nick de Viggiani
• Understanding novel psychoactive substances. Interview with Jan King, Chief Executive of The Angelus Foundation, interviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett

Book reviews:

• Disability incarcerated: Imprisonment and disability in the United States and Canada, by Lian Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman and Alison Carey (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
• Black Men, Invisibility and Crime, by Martin Glynn (reviewed by Paul Crossey)
• Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons 1066 to the Present, by David Wilson (reviewed by Professor Alyson Brown)
• A Companion to Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Risk, by Paul Taylor, Karen Corteen and Sharon Morley (Eds) (reviewed by Paul Crossey)
• Criminal Justice: A Beginner’s Guide, by Brian Gibson (reviewed by Paul Crossey)