A prison cannot outperform the quality of its frontline staff. This is because the role of the prison officer has a huge ...

Alliance for Youth Justice report examines what happens as exploited children turn 18, often being redefined as exploiters.

T he justice system can sometimes feel to victims and survivors of crime as though it is designed for everyone other than them. At the Parole Board, we want to do all we can to be more transparent ...

The COMPASS model integrates principles from compassion-focused therapy, positive psychology and desistance theory to provide ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood publishes Sentencing Bill to implement recommendations of the Sentencing Review.

The latest Academic Insight from HMI Probation focuses on the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice. Dr Sean Creaney and Dr Jayne Price describe how these ...

A much shorter than usual blog post today but I thought you might find these links useful. Yesterday (15 July), the MoJ published a map of all its properties as well as lists of them all divided into ...

This a guest post by Dr Miranda Bevan, King’s College London, who provides the secretariat to the APPG. Children and young people have told an Inquiry conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on ...

The latest (May 2025) report from HM Inspectorate of Probation’s Academic Insight examines Progressive Desistance practice in youth justice. Authored by Alexandra Wigzell & Claire Paterson-Young who ...

This is a guest post by Kevin Wong of Manchester Metropolitan University on a realist review he undertook with Professor Chris Fox, David Adams-Guppy, Ben Hall & myself. Performance targets, ...

Victim/survivors often face arrest for crimes they were forced to commit, like drug offences or theft. Even those who were not involved in criminal activity during their exploitation face risks—for ...