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 ...

This is a guest post by Sam Boyd, Co-Founder of the Common Ground Justice Project. The full version of the report he writes about, “Course Correction”, is available here. Public confidence in 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 ...

What next? D uring the development of our paper, we shared the review findings and NPG principles (as a governance framework for effective management) with Probation Service executives. Their response ...

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 ...

T he MoJ has just published a process evaluation of the probation service pilot Victim Notification Scheme which is for victims of stalking, harassment and coercive and controlling behaviour, where ...

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 scale F rom this scale then, it is possible to identify alternative non-custodial sentencing options which are comparative in severity to those short-term custodial sentences. This indicates that ...

Public safety at heart of review M any penal reformers see the review as a chance to re-balance the system, increasing the use of community sentences and reducing the number of women sent to custody ...