1. Turn on, tune in, slop out / Paul Mason
2. function of fiction for a punitive public / Anna King and Shadd Maurna
3. Red tops, populists and the irresistible rise of the public voice(s) / Mick Ryan
4. Crime sound bites : a view from both sides of the microphone / Enver Solomon
5. What works in changing public attitudes to prison : lessons from rethinking crime and punishment / Rob Allen
6. Delivering death : capital punishment, botched executions and the American news media / Chris Greer
7. 'Buried alive' : representations of the separate system in Victorian England
8. Undermining the simplicities : the films of Rex Bloomstein / Jamie Bennett
9. Creating a stir? : prisons, popular media and the power to reform / Yvonne Jewkes
10. violence of images : inside the prison TV drama Oz / Brian Jarvis
11. anti-heroines of Holloway : the prison films of Joan Henry and J. Lee Thompson / Steve Chibnall
12. Relocating Hollywood's prison film discourse / Paul Mason
13. Future punishment in American science fiction films / Mike Nellis.