Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.

The working group’s report puts forward six recommendations – including an important change to the Parole Board test, which ...

L aura Pope, an HMPPS researcher, has published findings from a qualitative case study approach exploring Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) in four male closed prisons in the latest edition of ...

T he Week in Justice is a short email digest of the latest news and views on criminal justice matters in the UK (mainly England & Wales). It shares interactive headlines on new policy announcements, ...

The Howard League has set up a hotline to advise people on IPP sentences about the new arrangements for terminating their licence. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has published a 5-point plan ...

In addition to interviewing 30 individuals who had been recalled to prison on IPP licences, we also interviewed prison, probation and parole board staff. One of the areas which caused confusion was ...

A s part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug ...

Conclusions The key findings of Dame Carol’s analysis of revenue from the illicit drug market in England and Wales are: It is estimated that consumers in England and Wales spent £9.4 billion on drugs ...

T he Global Drug Survey has just published the final report on its Special Edition on COVID-19 which was developed as part of a global effort to better understand the impact of the pandemic on ...

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