A new article in the current edition of the Probation Journal by Professor Charlie Brooker, Beth Collinson & Coral Sirdifield asks why we can provide access to healthcare for young people in the criminal justice system but not their adult counterparts. “Improving healthcare in adult probation services: Learning from Youth… Work with offenders on why we find it so difficult to improve healthcare for adults on probation...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s (IICSA) new report into organised child sexual exploitation makes for pretty grim reading. It concludes that the sexual exploitation of children by networks is not a rare problem confined to a small number of areas with high-profile criminal cases. It is a crime… Work with offenders on a new report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse...
As criminals become more sophisticated and ‘organised’ in the way they conduct their business and in an ever-increasing global market law enforcement agencies across the world have felt the need to develop more effective ways of making sure that crime doesn’t pay. Many police services were frustrated at their inability… Work with offenders on controversial practice...
A report published by the Sentencing Academy earlier this month examines the issue of intoxication as a sentencing factor. “Intoxication and Sentencing: A review of policy, practice and research” by Dr Carly Lightowlers of the University of Liverpool looks at an under-researched area. The Sentencing Academy, which is funded by… Work with offenders on new research from the Sentencing Academy...
The annual youth justice statistics (for the year 2020/21) are the first time we’ve had authoritative data to show the impact of COVID-19 on children in contact with the youth justice system. The statistics show a youth justice system succeeding in fewer children coming into the system, fewer children in… Work with offenders on concerns about the impact of the pandemic and persistent racial disparity...
This month’s issue of the Prison Service Journal focuses on the issue of care leavers and the criminal justice system. The lead article shares the findings of a substantial study into the experiences of looked after children in prison.The article: “After Care, After Thought?: The Invisibility of Care Experienced Men… Work with offenders on new research into an old problem...
The Ministry of Justice has finally published a Review of Custodial Remand of Children in response to the recommendations on children on remand made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in 2019. Although the number of children in custody has fallen considerably over the last twelve years,… Work with offenders on a new government review...
Most people in England and Wales significantly under-estimate the severity of current sentencing practices, according to the findings of a new survey published yesterday. The survey, commissioned by the Sentencing Academy and launched in the latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefing Prison Factfile, reveals that despite increases… Work with offenders on a new survey on public perceptions of the length of prison sentences ...
Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has published an update to its annual digest for the 2020/21 financial year. The original digest was published back in last July, it provides a range of facts and figures relating to prisons and probation and a belated minor update would normally only be… Work with offenders on growing concerns about the future of accredited programmes in prison ...
The Ministry of Justice has made limited progress on its Female Offender Strategy to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice system because it has not prioritised investment in this work, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office (NAO). As regular readers will know, women in the… Work with offenders looks at a new National Audit Office report...