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

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

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 ...

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 ...

T he Global Drug Survey has just published the final report on its Special Edition on COVID-19 which was developed as part of a global effort to better understand the impact of the pandemic on ...

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 ...

N ew research by the University of Lincoln in partnership with Revolving Doors set out to improve healthcare for people on probation by developing a set of standards & quality indicators for health ...

T he main purpose of this site is to keep readers up to date with all the latest development – policy announcements; research; statistics and practice developments and innovations. But the site also ...

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 ...

F or women such as Sarah, faith and trust in police is at an all-time low. Two weeks ago, Baroness Louise Casey published a landmark report into the Metropolitan Police Service which revealed an ...

Cross-Party group The Drugs, Alcohol & Justice Cross-Party Parliamentary Group provides an interface for professional providers of drug and alcohol treatment with parliamentarians of all parties who ...