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.

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 ...

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 ...