Tragically, the PPO started investigations into 486 deaths last year, a 35% increase on the year before. 2 There were 398 ...

Resolving crime out of court can meet many of these priorities for victims – and it often does. When it worked well, victims ...

Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.

Recall decisions are largely at the discretion of probation officers with no clear structure to support decision-making.

Overcrowding, coupled with a lack of activity, caused boredom and frustration among prisoners, which heightened the demand ...

Disconnection P robation staff accounts revealed a strong sense of disconnect from both their community counterparts and their colleagues in prison. POMs described being uncomfortably sat in the ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation. Clinks and Birth Companions report into the needs ...

Sam Boyd of the Common Ground Justice Project guest posts on latest public opinion research on the criminal justice system.

This is the latest in my new series of compendiums of the latest data and trends in the criminal justice system. Following compendiums on prisons, sentencing, and offender equalities, this edition ...