CCJS Staff Profile
Arianna Silvestri
Associate: Research and Policy
Arianna has been at CCJS since 2007, when she completed her MSc in Social Policy and Planning at the London School of Economics. She has a social policy. legal research and information provision background in a number of fields, including housing and homelessness, immigration and human rights. Among the organisations she has worked for are Citizens Advice, Shelter and the Housing Ombudsman Service.
Her interests include corporate, state and environmental harms, theories and models of crime and social control, regulation and the interaction between social and criminal justice policies.
Arianna is currently involved in the development of the Works for Freedom website and of the Criminal Justice Policy Review series.
Among her CCJS publications are:
- Young people, knives and guns
- Gun, knives and street violence
- Knife crime: a review of evidence and policy
- Partners or Prisoners? Voluntary sector independence in the world of commissioning and contestability
- Police spending 1999-2009
- Prison and probation spending 1999-2009
- Community Sentences Digest