As most readers will know, official statistics suggest that community orders and suspended sentence orders are associated ...

It is therefore no surprise that in his first chapter of the full report he sets out his rationale for revisiting the five ...

David Gauke's Sentencing Review sets the policy direction for criminal justice for the Labour Government. But what's in it?

Official stats for 2024 show increase in numbers going through the CJS and a big increase in community resolutions.

MoJ Qualitative Evaluation of the Accredited Thinking Skills Programme (TSP) identifies strengths & challenges.

Context Recent years have seen increased attention to both Neurodiversity as a general concept and social concern, and specifically to the way in which the CJS engages with individuals who are ...

Laura 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 ...

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 ...