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An informative and fascinating guide containing some 2,500 entries together with explanations and background to the prison slang whenever possible. Ideal reading for anyone wishing to look beneath the surface of criminal justice and penal policy at words and phrases used by prisoners which are often telling and direct. With an introduction to the topic of prison slang by the author including an overview of the contents, methodology, rhyming slang and backslang, the 'secret drugs code', jailers and the jailed, and scenes from prison life. It is a must for prisoners, their families, police, prison officers and anyone involved with prisons and prisoners, plus students of language.

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Author:   Angela Devlin ,  Maryanne
Publisher:   Waterside Press
Imprint:   Waterside Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 21.40cm
ISBN:  

9781872870410

ISBN 10:   1872870414
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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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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