Prison letters and the book Lush Life by Dick Hobbs
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Les Back reviews Dick Hobbs book Lush Life: Constructing Organised Crime in the UK Oxford University Press, 2013. He also reflects on the importance of letters for prisoners inside the criminal justice system, which offer a way to escape imaginitively the discipline of life behind prison walls.
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