Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.

The working group’s report puts forward six recommendations – including an important change to the Parole Board test, which ...

National Models and Greater Manchester’s Women’s Problem-Solving Courts T hese courts mark a shift in judicial practice as they aim to support women who are navigating underlying issues such as trauma ...

T his serves as a useful reminder for policymakers and campaigners to not only follow the evidence of ‘what works’, but also speak to the core beliefs of a public whose trust in the system will be ...

T his is the second in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised here. Today’s post looks at Chapter Two of Mr Gauke’s ...

Final Report T his final report document is 192 pages long and contains a wide range of recommendations. In his foreword Mr Gauke makes it clear that the Review’s principal task was to to put the ...

Disconnection P robation staff accounts revealed a strong sense of disconnect from both their community counterparts and their colleagues in prison. POMs described being uncomfortably sat in the ...

Context R ecent years have seen increased attention to both Neurodiversity as a general concept and social concern, and specifically to the way in which the CJS engages with individuals who are ...

T his year marks 10 years since the Modern Slavery Act was introduced, yet many victim/survivors are still being punished by the very systems meant to protect them. A new briefing by Hibiscus and ...

A recently published paper highlights a number of challenges faced by Resettlement Officers (ROs) in English Young Offender’s Institutions (prisons). These challenges hinder ROs in their role to ...

The de-politicisation of penal policy D uring a visit to the Netherlands last summer to see how they do prisons and sentencing, I was struck by the separation and de-politicisation of their penal ...

P olicy shopping from abroad can be tricky to get right. All too often, population and cultural barriers make “copy / pasting” solutions from one country to another fraught with challenge. Nowhere is ...