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Prison Patter: A Dictionary of Prison Words And Slang - Softcover

 
9781872870410: Prison Patter: A Dictionary of Prison Words And Slang

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Contains some 2,500 entries together with explanations and background to the prison slang. This guide is intended for those who wish to look beneath the surface of criminal justice and penal policy at words and phrases used by prisoners which are often telling and direct.

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About the Author

Angela Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and exponent of prisoners' rights whose work has attracted wide interest and acclaim: Criminal Classes (Waterside Press, 1995), Prison Patter: A Dictionary of Prison Slang (Waterside Press, 1996); Invisible Women: What's Wrong With Women's Prisons (Waterside Press, 1998), Anybody's Nightmare: The Sheila Bowler Story (Taverner Publications, 1998) and Going Straight After Crime and Punishment with Bob Turney (Waterside Press, 1999). Anybody's Nightmare, the true story of a wrongful conviction for murder, was later dramatised for ITV and featured the character 'Angela Devlin' campaigning for the case to be re-opened (The conviction was eventually quashed and the defendant acquitted after a new trial).

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