Introduction: Celebrating the Centenary of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Howard Journal

This special issue was commissioned to mark and to celebrate the centenary year of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Howard Journal. As its editors, we worked in partnership with the organisation and the journal's editor to select articles from the first 1921 issue that could open up discussion of change and continuity in the criminal justice system over the past 100 years. Reflecting the spirit of the history of the journal, we then invited academics and practitioners, straddling disciplines and experiences, including internationally, to author responses and offer reflections on key issues in the history of crime, punishment and policy, and their resonances in the past and now. The running order of this special issue follows that of the 1921 volume.