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Contents
In 2013, prisoners in England and Wales were banned from receiving books, as part of a new 'incentives and earned privileges' regime. Declaring the ban unlawful the following year, a High Court judge said: 'A book... may be very useful or indeed necessary as part of a rehabilitation process.' I was reminded of an old saying, 'People are sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment.'
How does this play out in practice? What is the experience of imprisonment like, and how do psychologists play their part in rehabilitation? This month a collection of articles considers these questions, beginning with Ian O'Donnell on solitary confinement (p.184).
There's more, including a look at 'new frontiers of family' ahead of a Society seminar series (see p.204). Keeping these packed issues coming is a challenge, so thanks to all who responded to my call for contributions in the latest 'From The Psychologist' e-mail. So many interesting ideas: sometimes this feels like the best job in the world!
Dr Jon Sutton
Managing Editor @psychmag
Features
- The survival secrets of solitaries
Ian O'Donnell finds resilience and growth in a most unlikely environment - The emperor's new clothes?
Graham Towl and David Crighton consider sex offender treatment and the 'New Public Management' trend - Rehabilitation - writing a new story
Adrian Needs looks at the importance of process and context in turning prisoners' lives around - Understanding the experience of imprisonment
Joel Harvey discusses the role of the psychologist
New frontiers of family
Naomi Moller and Victoria Clarke explore embryo donation and voluntary childlessness, ahead of their Society seminar series
New voices: Live long or live well?
Evelyn Barron with the latest in our series for budding writers
Debates
- Letters
Time for insulting reviews to stop?; instilling scientific rigour at the grassroots; finding a path to peace; video gaming; President's Letter; obituaries; and more
Reports
- New Wellcome Collection exhibition; Cambridge Science Festival; school counselling; parenting trials; briefing parliamentarians; art and science in the waiting room; and more
Digests
- Adversity and compassion; being autistic at work; lucid dreaming; and more, in the latest from our free Research Digest (see www.bps.org.uk/digest)
Meets
- 5 minutes with...
We talk to Emily Glorney about the Law Commission report on fitness to plead tests - Interview
Gail Kinman talks to Ad Vingerhoets about crying - Careers
We meet Elizabeth Peel, and Steven Brown reflects on a PhD defined by conflict - One on one
With Roxane Gervais
Reviews
- Intelligence and human abilities; Room; The Revenant; Dark Circus; rethinking anorexia; The Brain with David Eagleman; the London International Mime Festival; and more
Looks back
- The centenary of a maverick
Philip Corr on the life and work of Hans J. Eysenck - 25 years ago
Go to www.thepsychologist.org.uk for our archive, including prison riots
Big picture
Image by George Harding, words by Victoria Tischler
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