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Putting justice into words
WATERSIDE PRESS is the only law publisher to focus on criminal justice networks and information designed to reach over conventional boundaries. Many Waterside Press titles have become staples of the Criminal Justice System, its practitioners, trainers and librarians. Our authors range from judges and other experts to campaigners and ex-offenders. In putting justice into words, we aim to blend accessibility, with diversity, innovation, and integrity.

Our spheres of interest include the interaction between law and order and race, discrimination, gender, drugs, social exclusion and popular culture - as well as, e.g. public safety issues, restorative justice, capital punishment, deaths in custody, the rehabilitation of offenders and 'going straight', new initiatives, policy-making and the socio-legal aspects of the democratic process.

Various Waterside Press titles have been translated into foreign languages or braille.

Founding partner and editor-in-chief Bryan Gibson worked on the inside of the CJS as a barrister, justices’ clerk and contributor to journals and newspapers including the Criminal Law Review, New Law Journal, Law Society's Gazette, Community Care, Inside Time, The Times, Guardian, Sunday Express and other newspapers. He is a former co-editor of the weekly court journal Justice of the Peace (Butterworths) and has also written for BBC TV, and The Stage (as a reviewer of plays). Other highlights of his career include devising a blueprint for Unit Fines which reached the statute book in 1991 before being abandoned in a notorious U-turn; the development of 'custody-free zones' for juveniles (1980s); and advising the Magistrates’ Association on the legal parameters of its Sentencing Guidelines (1990s). He has also been associated with a number of campaigns and has written over 20 books under the Waterside Press imprint and that of Barry Rose.

'Waterside' relates to the Itchen Navigation in Winchester on which the original Waterside Press main office was situated (we now occupy premises in Hook).

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Company Address
We moved on 4th January 2008 to:

WATERSIDE PRESS
Sherfield Gables
Sherfield-on-Loddon
Hook
Hampshire
RG27 0JG
United Kingdom

Please update your records. We can no longer receive mail at our old address (Domum Road, Winchester, SO23 9NN, United Kingdom).

Tel:0845 2300 733 or +44 (0)1256 882 250
Fax: +44(0)1256 883 987

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Orders and General Enquiries
You can order securely from this website. All prices quoted are for direct mail orders only. We have always sold direct (as well as through bookshops) and have often offered our mail order customers a price lower than the general RRP. Browse our catalogue here

Bookshops etc. may make a trade enquiry.

Low cost UK landline calls: 0845 2300 733
Tel: +44 (0) 1256 882 250
Fax: +44 (0) 1256 883 987

Email:

Orders are typically despatched within 24-48 hours. Pre-publication orders will be despatched as soon as we have stock available.

Attention is drawn to the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling Regulations) 2000 (SI 2000 No. 2334). We will uphold your rights - we are dedicated to your complete satisfaction.

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Editorial
Tel: +44 (0) 1256 882 250
Low cost UK landline calls: 0845 2300 744

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Sole US Distributors
International Specialized Book Services (ISBS)

920 NE 58th Street, Suite 300, Portland, Oregon 97213-3786 USA

Tel: 1 800 944 6190
Fax: 1 503 280 8832

Email:
www.isbs.com

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Review Copies
If you would like to review one of our titles, please see our policy here

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Waterside Press Ltd
Directors: Bryan Gibson (company secretary) and Dawn Gibson.

Registered Office: Sherfield Gables, Sherfield on Loddon, Hook RG27 0JG

Company number: 4474187.

As part of a transition to limited company status certain works are now published by Waterside Press Ltd (established 2002). These works may also appear on this web-site.

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