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Ending up with 20 years in the Big House
I recently read a challenging but stimulating scholarly book by David Hayes - Confronting Penal Excess. Retribution and the Politics of Penal Minimalism.
News
In the news this week
Our Director, Richard Garside, has been quoted in the New York Times and The Times this week.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on London Bridge last week by Usman Khan, The New York Times quoted Richard on sentencing policy. On the controversy surrounding Mr...
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Meeting Nala
I recently re-read Peggy Giodano's important scholarly work, Legacies of Crime, which explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a 20-year period as they grew to adulthood. A book that left an abiding impression on my understanding of how some women become embroiled in the criminal justice system.
Project
The future of probation
We are working with a network of professional groups, trade unions and civil society organisations to press for an improved structure and working arrangements for the probation service.
Led by the Probation Institute , and with the informal title of the Probation Alliance, the initiative is pressing for the reunification of probation, and the recreation of of publicly-owned service, following the disastrous part-privatisation under the former coalition government. The Alliance...
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State is failing young people leaving custody
Youth resettlement – final report into work in the community, the latest report from HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons, has prompted calls for more support for young people released from custody. Our Director, Richard Garside is amongst those calling for the state to address it failures.
The report found that children leaving custody are not being given adequate support as they re-integrate back into life in the community. Both ITV News...
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The tantalising hope of recovery
Mike Guilfoyle remembers 'Blaine', a former client trying to overcome alcoholism whilst on probation
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What supervision in the community should look like
This month Mike Guilfoyle reflects on an unsual supervisory experience
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Vignettes from a probation conference
This month Mike Guilfoyle remembers a probation event at Lake Windermere
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Music, lyrics and memories in probation
In his latest reflection, Mike remembers 'Brice'
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A job well done in the community
Whilst reading Preet Bharara's thoughtful and vivid account of his time as a US federal...
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Risk and rehabilitation in probation supervision
I was recently reading an important contribution to the criminological literature on the importance of rehabilitative...
News
Centre's Director in the Morning Star
Our Director, Richard Garside, commented on public probation services in Wales after Chief Inspector of Probation Dame Glenys Stacey had praised their leadership.
This comes in contrast to the criticism faced by community rehabilitation companies which a number of leading criminal justice experts, including Richard, have called to be taken back into public hands. ...