Volume 31(1) of the JPP is now available online

Today, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons launched Volume 31, Number 1 - a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) on "Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience" edited by Katharina Maier, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and Shadd Maruna. The collection features contributions on the structures, laws, policies, practices, resources, and relationships that facilitate and/or act as barriers to desistance from criminalized acts. The cover art was created by Steel Door Studios.

The digitization of this open access issue of the JPP was made possible through a University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences Collabzium Grant. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue via subscription through the University of Ottawa Press. The printed copies of the issue are schedule to arrive at our office in mid-August 2022. They will be mailed to issue contributors and journal subscribers from there. 

This issue of the JPP is the third of four to be published in 2022 with a general issue forthcoming. We thank our contributors for continuing to write as resistance, as well as the University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences and our subscribers for supporting their work.