Unlocking The Prison Muse: The Inspirations And Effects Of Prisoners' Writing In Britain

From Oscar Wilde to John McVicar, Jimmy Boyle to Jeffrey Archer and Noel 'Razor' Smith, Unlocking The Prison Muse: The inspirations and effects of prisoners' writing in Britainexamines the history, the inspirations and the effects of prisoners' writing in Britain - on rehabilitation, on wider society, on penal policy and on victims.

The author, Julian Broadhead, was the co-founder and editor of Prison Writing journal from 1992-2002. A probation officer for almost twenty-five years, he has been a regular contributor to the New Law Journal since 1992 and has also written for The Times. In 2002 he was awarded a Cropwood Fellowship at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, where he began the research that led to Unlocking The Prison Muse.