Justice
Beyond the tipping point?
Post-riot communities face a difficult terrain ahead, but pushing the justice system beyond the tipping point is not the answer, argues Anton Shelupanov.
What about psychological and social health?
Paying attention to health is critical for successful criminal justice system reform
Privatised prisons - a false economy
The most effective way to reduce costs in the criminal justice system is to stem the flow of people reaching prison. A recent decision to privatise one of the largest prisons is risky and will not break the cycle of the rising prison population.
Aspirations from the street
Persuading young men in Harrow to sign up to emotional resilience courses.
Prisoner voting and active citizenship
Allowing prisoners the right to vote gives them a stake in the democratic process. Robert Patrick writes that such a social responsibility could aid rehabilitation and maintain their inclusion in society.
Mapping the way to a happier community?
The newly launched online crime maps are an impressive piece of new technology but what is their real value? Anton Shelupanov considers how they might foster community spirit and improve public satisfaction with the police.
The Comprehensive Spending Review- an opportunity for justice?
This week the Chancellor George Osborne announced £2.5 billion in cuts to the Justice budget. The system will have to maintain public safety with fewer resources, and fewer front line staff. This is serious but it is not catastrophic.
Offender employment - what is out there?
The Coalition has announced a ‘rehabilitation revolution' as part of their criminal justice reforms. Efforts to help former offenders get jobs must be central to this program; evidence strongly suggests that having a job reduces the likelihood of reoffending by as much as 50%.
Ken Clarke and the Rehabilitation Revolution
In July the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, set out his stall on justice policy. The speech was timely and his analysis largely correct: it is astonishing that since he was last in charge of the criminal justice system in the early 1990s the number of people in prison has doubled. He talked about this being unsustainable.
Offender employment in a time of retrenchment
What part will offender employment play in the ‘rehabilitation revolution'?
Reflection on Dr Samantha Callan's visit - role of government, community, family
Sarah Hewes, a researcher at the Young Foundation, ponders about on the role of government in strengthening communities.
Looking beyond grime and crime
How can we go beyond the 'cleaner, safer, greener' agenda in neighbourhood work?
Social Impact Bonds and Social Value
The thinking behind the development of a new financial tool to invest money in social outcomes
Creating Criminals
Not a day has gone by recently without some major banking or business disaster or other being reported by the press.
Creatively maladjusted...
Last week, I was standing on the forecourt of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty years ago almost to the day Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered there for trying to make the world a better, more just place.
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