Extra content related to our books. If a book mentions additional content on our website you should be able to find it here. From time to time we also add other items of interest here.
BBC News has used extracts from one of our publications to illustrate the impact on family life of sending women to prison. ‘What Happens When Your Mum Goes to Prison?’ is based around Seen & Heard, edited by Lucy Baldwin and Ben Raikes.… Read more “What Happens When Mothers Go to Prison?”
And now it’s over 30 years on from those Parkhurst days and I am sitting in a café in Manchester. Opposite me is a large self-contained man, an observer cautiously protective of himself. His quietly spoken words reveal a perceptive intelligence.… Read more “The Prison Psychiatrist’s Wife – Postscript”
Following the recent release of Alan Jackaman’s acclaimed new book Who Really Killed Claire? (in paperback and ebook), we have made his earlier work Napper: Through a Glass Darkly available as an audiobook.
This is a first for our small press, recently made possible through new technology and our ongoing distribution partnership with Google Play.… Read more “Napper by Alan Jackaman Audiobook”
This diagram helps to explain the Courts Hierarchy in England and Wales. From the bedrock of justice in the Magistrates’ Courts, justice is also done through the Crown Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and the final arbiter is the House of Lords (until November 2009 when that role passed to the new Supreme Court).… Read more “The Courts Hierarchy in Outline”
This is a simplified view of a typical youth court layout. It shows which interested parties would be present during a youth court hearing and where they might sit.
For more information on any of the roles shown here see Mike Watkins and Diane Johnson’s book Youth Justice and The Youth Court from which the diagram is taken.… Read more “Example of a Youth Court Layout”
