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...
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A more therapeutic approach to rehabilitating people convicted of sexual offences?
The fine American author Russell Banks remarkable twelfth novel, Lost...
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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, ...
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Getting caught out
Reading Daniel Briggs' fine ethnographic study of crack cocaine users in South London 'High Society and Low...
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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...
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Believing in someone
I read with considerable interest the recent legislative changes outlined in the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 to empower magistrates to be able to send short-term prisoners to prison for breaching the terms of their licence.
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Someone to listen to
Stephen Grosz writes engagingly wise reflections of his years working as a therapist, and about the many thousands of hours he spent offering hope and understanding to those troubled by emotional trauma.
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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,...
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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...
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Transforming Rehabilitation: five questions
On January 9 the Ministry of Justice published Transforming Rehabilitation, its latest plans for the management of convicted lawbreakers in the community. The proposals can be...
Publication
Criminal justice resources staffing and workloads: An initial assessment
This initial assessment of criminal justice resources, staffing and workloads was carried out during October and November 2008 by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies for a group of professional...
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Public confidence in community sentences: Evaluation of the fourth year of Local Crime Community Sentences
Engaging communities with the criminal justice system can be achieved by providing the public with clear information about sentencing. We evaluated the successful pilot of the 'Local crime/community...