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...
Reading Erin Marie Daley's powerful and harrowing account, Generation Rx: A Story of Dope, Death and America's Opiate Crisis about the loss of her younger brother Pat to drug dependency,...
Whilst poring over Caitlin Davies’ eminently readable and lively history of HMP Holloway, Bad Girls A History of Rebels and Renegades, I was put in mind of a supervisory experience which...
Recently, whilst mulling over criminologist David Scott's bracing anthologised abolitionist writings, I remembered a challenging experience whilst working as a probation officer at the outset of what was to become a 20 year stint!
Andrew Johnson's passionately argued account, If I Give My Soul. Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro, on the transformative role of faith inside some of Brazil's toughest prisons,...
Our submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee inquiry into 'Transforming Rehabilitation' has now been published on the Committee's website.
Whatever the government's original intentions, we argue in the submission, the Transforming Rehabilitation programme 'is sabotaging, rather than transforming, probation work across England and Wales'.
Rather than 'attempting to make a badly-designed system work slightly less badly', we...
Richard Garside, Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today commented on a damning annual report by the Chief Inspector of Probation, Dame Glenys Stacey.
'None of government’s stated aspirations for Transforming Rehabilitation have been met in any meaningful way', Dame Glenys noted. She went on to question whether the current model for probation can deliver sufficiently well'.
Speaking today, Richard said:
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Whilst reading Mary Bosworth's excellent study on the criminalisation of migrants and asylum-seekers,...
