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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...
Comment
Transforming Rehabilitation: and the procession passed on…
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,...
News
Crisis in Probation Service revealed
The Independent on Sunday has revealed a catalogue of evidence demonstrating the scale of the crisis in the Probation...
Comment
A more therapeutic approach to rehabilitating people convicted of sexual offences?
The fine American author Russell Banks remarkable twelfth novel, Lost...
Publication
The probation spending crisis
Mark Oldfield and Roger Grimshaw argue that increased probation funding has failed to match the costs of delivering services
Comment
On the run from justice
Having just read Alice Hoffman's poignant account of what being on the 'wrong side of the law' is like in inner-city Philadelphia, ...
Comment
Getting caught out
Reading Daniel Briggs' fine ethnographic study of crack cocaine users in South London 'High Society and Low...
Comment
A shared belief in the change process
Whilst reading the absorbing and brave memoir of Carl Hart which describes his upbringing in one of Miami's toughest neighbourhoods...
Comment
Believing in someone
I read with considerable interest the recent legislative changes outlined in the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 to...
Comment
Someone to listen to
Stephen Grosz writes engagingly wise...
Comment
Risky and fundamentally misguided
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,...
Comment
The great probation sell-off
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...