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

National Annual Report, published today (19 June 2025) offers a stark insight into the human cost of overcrowding across ...

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

This is a guest post by Sam Boyd, Co-Founder of the Common Ground Justice Project. The full version of the report he writes about, “Course Correction”, is available here. Public confidence in the ...

I am not a criminal. Sure, I have seventeen convictions to my name, but the reality is that I am just one of millions of people who have been let down by misinformed policies, biased interventions, ...

In recent months there has been increased scrutiny of how women are sentenced, following the Independent Sentencing Review and wider discussions associated with enhancing community-based alternatives ...

Professional curiosity in probation practice. In England and Wales, probation practitioners are increasingly encouraged to apply professional curiosity to enhance risk assessment and better understand ...

This is the eight (and, many readers will be glad to know, penultimate) in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised ...

This is the sixth 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 the Review’s conclusions about ...