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More insights on the English Borstal
More insights on the English Borstal: ‘shaping’ or just ‘shaking’ the young-offender? International Journal of Criminology and...
Susy Menis
The crisis of penal populism
The crisis of penal populism: prison legitimacy and its effects on women’s prisons in the UK. Forensic Res Criminol Int J. 6:6; 2018,...
Susy Menis
Policy at the mercy of fear: Déjà vu and the open prisons
Absconds from prison are at a historic low. The prison system in England and Wales does not offer an ‘open prison’ sentence, but...
Susy Menis
A History of Women’s Prisons in England: The Myth of Prisoner Reformation
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021). This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship...
Susy Menis
Wormwood Scrubs: The Inside Story
ANGELA LEVIN, Wormwood Scrubs: The Inside Story: Revealing What Really Goes on in England’s Most Famous Prison. London: GFI&A, 2014, pp....
Susy Menis
Women Prisons, History and Invisibility
Historical criminology research on prisons in England comes across as genderless. Yet, these histories reflect the story of male prisons...
Susy Menis
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