Having recently read Harry Annison's thoughtfully impressive case study of the genesis and demise of the IPP sentence (Imprisonment for Public Protection) put me in mind of a particularly challenging supervisory experience when working as a field probation officer with Jim (not his real name).
Reading Val McDermid's chillingly grisly but compulsive book on the forensic history of crime,...
Having just read Pat O' Malley’s thoughtful and...
Towards the end of Alan Lord's blisteringly honest account of his prison experiences...
I had an insight when reading the critical re-examination of female desistance by Roger Matthews et al.,...
I recently read social work academic Ray Jones’ sobering and critical analysis of the case of 'Baby P', which put me in mind...
There is a memorable quote from the fascinating study of car theft in the USA, by John A Heitmann and Rebecca H Morales, that...
I recently read Nigel Fielding's scholarly account of how courts handle cases of physical violence, and...
After reading the powerfully elegiac book by Jeff Hobbs,
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I had an unsettling reminder of one of the organisational contortions that have beset the Probation Service in recent years, as part of the pervasive impact of unrestrained neo-liberalism, when...
Whilst reading criminologist Fergus McNeil's co-edited volume on...
I vividly recall listening to reformed armed robber Bobby Cummines, co-founder of the ground breaking charity Unlock, speaking at my invitation to a Napo...
