Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day.

This post summarises what we know about the government’s criminal justice plans for 2025. T here was a consensus that our ...

Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will build 14,000 more prison places by 2031. The strategy presents a reasonably ...

The new Government is looking to overhaul the whole of the criminal justice system. We already have a sentencing review, we now have a Courts Review. Yesterday (12 December 2024), the Ministry of ...

A new Prison Reform Trust (PRT) report has called for the radical transformation of the prison officer role in England and Wales. Its recommendations include the establishment of a professional ...

Earlier this month (5 December 2024), the MoJ published research into drug testing and Incentivised Substance Free Living wings (ISFLs) in three prisons. The research was conducted by RAND Europe with ...

New (12 December 2024) MoJ research into the Electronic Monitoring of Domestic Abuse Perpetrators on Licence (DAPOL) makes for interesting reading. The DAPOL scheme was launched in August 2023 in two ...

Policy shopping from abroad can be tricky to get right. All too often, population and cultural barriers make “copy / pasting” solutions from one country to another fraught with challenge. Nowhere is ...

Last week (12 September, 2024), the MoJ published a process evaluation of unpaid work in England and Wales. This was a large scale study undertaken by Tom Jackson, Rachel Crorken, Sheenik Mills, and ...

Last week (12 December 2024) the Office for National Statistics published its latest overview of the extend and trends of illicit drug use, drawing on data from the latest edition of the Crime Survey ...

Research finds electronic monitoring of domestic abuse perpetrators on licence is a helpful tool but data is not easily accessible ...