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Bruce Western, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison

mental health, educational attainment and ongoing involvement with the criminal justice system (p. 105). In summary, this book prompts wider discussion about the use of prison and the extent to which it loses its legitimacy when penal power is used in punitive and thoughtless ways. Jardine’s research highlights some of the hardships and negative consequences which can arise out of these actions or inactions. Jardine’s book is rich in its ethnographic observations and is carried further by her empathetic approach as a researcher. Crucially, she demonstrates the importance – in academic discourse, policy and practice – of how prisoners’ supportive relationships are framed. Developing services that meet the specific needs of the diverse range of families affected by imprisonment and training prison staff can be viewed as a welcome and meaningful step towards improving families experiences of imprisonment. More fundamentally, in order to mitigate the harm that imprisonment visits upon prisoners and their families, and as Jardine concludes, custodial penalties must be used sparingly (p. 137).