Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has just published a new report in their “Academic Insights” series looking at best practice in relation to County Lines drug dealing. The report was produced by Professor John Pitts and highlights how County Lines operations have moved to the country and expanded over recent… Work with Offenders on a new report by Professor John Pitts...
A new T2A (Transition to Adulthood) briefing on young adults and remand launched today (Thursday 25 January) makes the case for a reform of remand arrangements for young adults. T2A (Transition to Adulthood) is an initiative of the Barrow Cadbury Trust’s criminal justice programme. The Trust is an independent, charitable… Work with offenders looks at new recommendations to reduce the number of young adults remanded in custody...
The Sentencing Council has published a comprehensive package of new sentencing guidelines for drugs offences designed to reflect a change in the nature of offending as well as taking into account additional offences in relation to new psychoactive substances. The Misuse of Drugs Act offences of importation, production and supply… Work with Offenders looks at the factors behind new Sentencing Council guidelines for drug offences ...
Somewhat unusually, the MoJ chose the weekend (Saturday 23 January) to make two big announcements about the future of work with women offenders. Firstly it issued a press release to say that 38 women’s organisations will receive almost £2 million in new funding to support their work steering women away… Work with Offenders looks at the Government’s plans to send fewer women to prison...
An interesting new paper from the Deloitte Centre for Government Insights looks at the future challenges facing criminal justice systems across the world. The authors’ basic premise is that the global pandemic has accelerated the pace of technological and other systemic change which will demand increasingly swift responses from our… Work with Offenders looks at an interesting prediction of future crime trends ...
Today (20 January 2021) the Home Office and Department of Health jointly announced a £148 million of investment to tackle drug-related crime. The package of investment attempts to take a systemwide approach tackling drugs. Alongside extra resources to law enforcement to try to dismantle organised crime groups and disrupt the… Work with Offenders has the latest on Project ADDER...
The Centre for Social Justice, the right-leaning Think Tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004, yesterday became the latest organisation to urge the government to make digital technology accessible to people in prison. The Centre’s new report, “Digital technology in prisons: unlocking relationships, learning and skills in UK prisons”… Work with Offenders on a new report from the Centre for Social Justice...
As most readers will know, the probation service will be reunified this June when the contracts of the 21 private Community Rehabilitation Companies will be terminated and all sentence management responsibilities will go to the National Probation Service (NPS). This means that, from June 2021, the NPS will be responsible… Work with Offenders looks at the latest briefing from the Centre for Justice Innovation...
Agenda and the Standing Committee for Youth Justice (SCYJ) today published a new literature review as part of their Young Women’s Justice Project which shines a light on the experiences of young women aged 17–25 years old in contact with the criminal justice system, including the experiences of girls transitioning… Work with Offenders looks at evidence from a new literature review...
Very many years ago when I was training to be a probation officer (to give you some idea of how far back in history we are talking about, one of my first cases was the post-release supervision of Cain for that well-known offence against his brother), deferred sentences were common… Work with Offenders examines a new briefing from the Centre for Justice Innovation...