Miranda Bevan, King's College London, guest blogs on new research from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children in ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Jake Phillips, Reader in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. Sad reading On 25 October, the Ministry of Justice published data on ‘Deaths of Offenders in the Community’ ...

Work and desistance Everyone knows that finding work is a key component to going straight; a factor which is confirmed by the evidence base. There are four key reasons why employment promotes ...

Y esterday (14 May 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching and ...

Striving to improve 2017-18 represents the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Parole Board. Those fifty years has seen fundamental changes and many improvements in the way our system works, ...

O ver the past year, myself and a team of people with lived experience, have been working on a best practice guide on how to support people with lived experience who volunteer in a range of roles in ...

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 ...

L ast week (3 April 2019) Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) published its new Prison Drugs Strategy. There have, of course, always been drugs and drug misusers in prison but over the ...