A new article by Rebecca Helm of Exeter University has found that children need protection from being pressured or incentivised into pleading guilty to crimes they have not committed. Dr Helm, as well as being a Senior Lecturer at Exeter, is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and Attorney… Work with offenders on new research into the institutional pressure put on minors to admit criminal guilt...
A new study: Restorative Justice: enabling communication, repairing harm has just been published by the Interventions Alliance, part of the Seetec Group which currently runs three Community Rehabilitation Companies. The study looks at the impact of 173 restorative justice interventions over three years in Wales. Restorative justice (commonly known as… Work with offenders looks at new Welsh research...
New research published this week (4 May, 2021) finds that football fans who use cocaine are most likely to be aggressive towards rival fans. The research, from Martha Newson who is based at the Universities of Kent and Oxford, is based on an anonymous online survey of almost 1,500 British… Work with offenders looks at intriguing new research on a possible link between cocaine use and heightened aggression at football grounds ...
The Ministry of Justice and Office for National Statistics has published its regular quarterly statistical bulletin on “Offender Management”. The bulletin looks at all the main trends affecting the prison and probation systems covering the period of the 2020 calendar year (but going up to March 2021 for the prison… The latest offender management statistics show the impact of COVID on our justice system...
For the last two years, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has been publishing a series of short research briefings under the branding of “Academic Insights”. The inspectorate commissions leading academics to present their views on specific topics, with the aim of promoting informed debate and aiding understanding of what helps… Work with offenders on today’s HMI Probation’s latest Academic Insight...
Last Friday (23 April 2021), the House of Commons Justice Committee published its report from its inquiry into the future of the probation service. The Justice Committee report welcomed the decision to re-unify the Probation Service. It warned, however, that after the disruption of the past seven years these changes… Work with Offenders on the latest Justice Committee report which looks to limit probation caseloads to 50 per officer ...
The Prison Reform Trust has published an analysis of the government’s Female Offender Strategy which shows that just 31 of its 65 commitments have been implemented, even though the strategy was published almost three years ago in June 2018. The charity’s analysis questions whether the recent government announcement of 500… Work with offenders on the latest analysis from the Prison Reform Trust...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons has published an updated version of its Women’s Prison Expectations. The document comes on the back of a public consultation last November and December and sets out the inspectors’ standards for the treatment and conditions experienced by women in custody. This second edition aims to… Work with offenders on the new prison inspectorate’s expectations...
The RAND Corporation has just published its Outcome evaluation of the national model for liaison and diversion. As most readers will know, Liaison and Diversion (L&D) services are designed to support people with mental health problems, a learning disability, substance misuse problems and other vulnerabilities including unstable accommodation and risk… Work with offenders looks at a new evaluation of the national model...
With the third set of elections for Police and Crime Commissioners less than three weeks away, criminal justice stakeholders have been lobbying for their goals and ideas to be adopted by the different prospective post-holders. The Centre for Justice Innovation and the Criminal Justice Alliance have jointly published a new… Work with offenders looks at a new joint briefing from the Centre for Justice Innovation and the Criminal Justice Alliance...