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PRESS RELEASE SAGE PUBLICATIONS are delighted to confirm the next issue of Punishment & Society (Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2002) includes the article 'The British General Election 2001: The centre right consensus' by David Downes & Rod Morgan. The paper examines the political role of law and order during this election. It explores how a near consensus between New Labour and Conservative agendas for more punitive policies towards persistent offenders emerged with a rediscovery of the criminal rather than the crime as the rationale for sentencing policy. Punishment & Society is an international journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for research and scholarship dealing with punishment, penal institutions and penal control. It advances and refines the impressive body of work that has emerged in this field over the last two decades, and is a source of informed commentary and criticism regarding the penal policies and practices of our time Punishment & Society is edited by Richard Sparks Keele University (UK) with Andrew Coyle International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London (UK) as Managing Editor. The journal is supported by an International Board of Associate Editors. This issue will also include the following articles; Exploring risk management in probation practice: Contemporary developments in England and Wales by Gwen Robinson; Quality of prison operations in the U.S. federal sector: A comparison with a private prison by Scott D. Camp, Gerald G. Gaes and William G. Saylor; Restorative justice: The real story by Kathleen Daly; Turkish jails, hunger strikes and the European drive for prison reform by Penny Green; Determining parole eligibility dates for life prisoners: Lessons from jury hearings in Canada by Julian V Roberts; Carceral clawback: The case of women's imprisonment in Canada by Pat Carlen. Punishment & Society (ISSN 1461-9571) is published quarterly (January, April, July, October). 2002 Subscription rates: Individual Introductory price £32 / US $50, Institutional £240 / US $377. This issue can also be bought separately - Individual £11.00 / US $17.00, Institutional £61.00 / US $95.00. For further information including submission details and access to an online sample copy, please visit the Punishment & Society homepage at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0251.html Sage Publications, 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU, UK Tel: +44 (0)20-7374-0645 Fax: +44(0)20-7374-8741