Whilst working in a forensic psychology service with the probation service, I remember seeing a referral in my in-tray marked ‘urgent’. When delving into the file it turned out to be the file of...
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, is co-signatory of a letter to Minister of Justice David Gauke.
The letter, mentioned in the weekend's Observer, expresses concern over the decision to re-let Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) contracts. ...
I recently returned to re-reading Edward Bunker's visceral and uncompromisingly powerful memoir of his life, in and out of prison, ...
A short time ago, I read Fergus McNeill's latest opus, Pervasive Punishment: Making...
Whilst working for the NHS in a primary care mental health service, I remember walking into the community mental health team’s monthly referrals meeting. The meeting was to discuss the referrals...
Whilst on a recent weekend away I found it almost impossible to put down Kate Rossmanith’s luminously written Small Wrongs: How we really...
Whilst working in a community drug project I remember walking into work one Monday morning and seeing Arnie’s (not his real name) referral paperwork on my desk.
I had not worked long at...
I recently picked up a 1964 copy of Undertow, by the prominent American educator Helen Parkhurst, a remarkably moving account of the life of a 'juvenile delinquent' called Tony...
Whilst reading a dusty copy of a probation officer reminiscence, I came across an appealing phrase, 'in the scrapbook of my mind' from the late author and screenwriter Sewell Stokes. Stokes, who...
Whilst reading criminologist Rod Earle's lively and critical account of imprisonment drawn in part from his own experience, Convict criminology. Inside and out, I was keenly reminded of...
Whilst recently reading Danielle Arlanda Harris's refreshingly original book Desistance from sexual offending, I was...
