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 ...

T his serves as a useful reminder for policymakers and campaigners to not only follow the evidence of ‘what works’, but also speak to the core beliefs of a public whose trust in the system will be ...

T his is the second in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised here. Today’s post looks at Chapter Two of Mr Gauke’s ...

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 ...

Context R ecent 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 ...

T his year marks 10 years since the Modern Slavery Act was introduced, yet many victim/survivors are still being punished by the very systems meant to protect them. A new briefing by Hibiscus and ...

A recently published paper highlights a number of challenges faced by Resettlement Officers (ROs) in English Young Offender’s Institutions (prisons). These challenges hinder ROs in their role to ...

T oday (12 February 2025) Catch22 (in partnership with the University of Plymouth) has published the latest in its Insights Paper series “Fixing Fixed Term Recall”, which explores the practice of ...

The de-politicisation of penal policy D uring a visit to the Netherlands last summer to see how they do prisons and sentencing, I was struck by the separation and de-politicisation of their penal ...

P olicy 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 ...

Public safety at heart of review M any penal reformers see the review as a chance to re-balance the system, increasing the use of community sentences and reducing the number of women sent to custody ...