Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.

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.

I am not a criminal. Sure, I have seventeen convictions to my name, but the reality is that I am just one of millions of people who have been let down by misinformed policies, biased interventions, ...

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 ...

Different groups, different starting points W hat emerges from conversations across the country is a public with more complex views than represented by the popular framing of ‘tough’ vs ‘soft’ justice ...

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 ...