Recent publications
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Please note that these publications are listed in order of publishing and are only the more recent. For older publications, please visit our archive.
- UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 2
Richard Garside and Arianna Silvestri (March 2013) - The second in an annual series, this review tracks criminal justice policy and compiles data about criminal justice across the UK. Click here to download the report and press release. - UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 1
Richard Garside and Helen Mills (November 2012) - The first in a new annual series, this review tracks criminal justice policy and compiles data about criminal justice across the UK. Click here to download the report and press release. - Critical reflections: social and criminal justice in the first year of Coalition government
Arianna Silvestri (March 2012) - The report evaluates the criminal justice record of the Conservative-led Coalition since it was formed after the May 2010 election. Click here to download the report. - A life sentence really? The resettlement of prisoners with a conviction for a sexual offence and the role of a housing support charity in this process
Helen Mills and Roger Grimshaw (March 2012) - This report explores the transition from prison for those with a conviction for a sexual offence, a group that faces and poses considerable challenges in the community after their prison release. Click here to download the report. - Reducing the numbers in custody: looking beyond criminal justice solutions
Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts (January 2012) - This is the second and final paper in the Reform Sector Strategies project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Young adults in transition: local matters, national implications
Danny Dorling and Richard Garside (November 2011) - This briefing looks at factors affecting young adults in three areas of England covered by the Transition to Adulthood T2A pilots. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Young adults in transition: the local picture in national context
Danny Dorling and Richard Garside, additonal research by Melinda Kerrison (November 2011) - This briefing looks at how household location affects young adult life chances and how this has developed over time. Click here to download the report and the press release. - My Story: Young people talk about the trauma and violence in their lives
Roger Grimshaw (November 2011) - This publication sheds new light on the experiences of young people convicted of grave crimes as children, who tell their stories in their own words. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Community sentences: a solution to penal excess?
Helen Mills (July 2011) - This paper examines the use of community sentences as a mechanism for reducing reliance on custody in England and Wales since the late 1990s. Click here to download the report and the press release. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Doing justice locally: the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre
Professor George Mair and Dr Matthew Millings (February 2011) - This research project examines the changes brought about at the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre - the first and the most ambitious site of community justice in the UK. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Lessons for the Coalition: an end of term report on New Labour and criminal justice
Edited by Arianna Silvestri (January 2011) - An authoritative, independent assessment of New Labour's performance in key areas of criminal justice between 1997 and 2010, including how laws and policies impacted on practice and research. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Magistrates' courts' and Crown Court expenditure, 1999-2009
Dr Roger Grimshaw and Helen Mills, with Arianna Silvestri and Felicia Silberhorn-Armantrading (September 2010) - This is the third of a series of briefings on criminal justice spending supported by the Hadley Trust. Spending on the criminal courts rose to a billion pounds despite staffing cuts of 12 per cent over the past three years. Click here to download the publication. - Prison and probation expenditure, 1999-2009
Helen Mills, Arianna Silvestri and Roger Grimshaw with Felicia Silberhorn-Armantrading (July 2010) - This is the second of a series of briefings on criminal justice spending supported by the Hadley Trust. Spending on the prison and probation system in England and Wales has grown by 36 percent in real terms since 2004 despite a major reorganisation that was meant to save money. Click here to download the publication. - Family intervention projects: a classic case of policy-based evidence
David Gregg (June 2010) - This briefing argues that the evidence based accumulated from evaluations of the Family Intervention Projects was systematically distorted by New Labour and led to the coercion of vulnerable families with significant social problems. Click here to download the publication.
For older publications, please visit our archive