One step at a time
As an inveterate reader, I have a particular interest, as a former Probation Officer, in exploring the radical ways of mitigating the, often damaging, impact of poorly considered criminal justice...
As an inveterate reader, I have a particular interest, as a former Probation Officer, in exploring the radical ways of mitigating the, often damaging, impact of poorly considered criminal justice...
Two events coincided at the end of May 2014 that illuminate the contrary directions in thinking about the future of our economy. The first was the conference on Inclusive Capitalism,...
The Independent on Sunday has revealed a catalogue of evidence demonstrating the scale of the crisis in the Probation...
The fine American author Russell Banks remarkable twelfth novel, Lost...
Having just read Alice Hoffman's poignant account of what being on the 'wrong side of the law' is like in inner-city Philadelphia, ...
Reading Daniel Briggs' fine ethnographic study of crack cocaine users in South London 'High Society and Low...
Whilst reading the absorbing and brave memoir of Carl Hart which describes his upbringing in one of Miami's toughest neighbourhoods...
I read with considerable interest the recent legislative changes outlined in the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 to...
Stephen Grosz writes engagingly wise...
I won't forget 19 September 2013 in a hurry. Though it was my daughter's birthday, that's not the reason.
My mind was focused on the heavily predicted, but no less shocking,...
Today marks the next stage in the Transforming Rehabilitation programme, with the launch of the competition to deliver the bulk of probation work in England and Wales.
The...