Resolving crime out of court can meet many of these priorities for victims – and it often does. When it worked well, victims ...

Overcrowding, coupled with a lack of activity, caused boredom and frustration among prisoners, which heightened the demand ...

Recall decisions are largely at the discretion of probation officers with no clear structure to support decision-making.

Miranda Bevan, King's College London, guest blogs on new research from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children in ...

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

L aura Pope, an HMPPS researcher, has published findings from a qualitative case study approach exploring Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) in four male closed prisons in the latest edition of ...

In addition to interviewing 30 individuals who had been recalled to prison on IPP licences, we also interviewed prison, probation and parole board staff. One of the areas which caused confusion was ...

Conclusions The key findings of Dame Carol’s analysis of revenue from the illicit drug market in England and Wales are: It is estimated that consumers in England and Wales spent £9.4 billion on drugs ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a blog tradition to start the New Year with a quiz. All the answers to the quiz can be found on the pages of the blog. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a Happy New Year.

A s part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug ...