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Saturday, 23 December 2017

A Right Royal Scandal

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I don’t know whether protocol requires the Queen to be told when her name is attached to a new organisation or when it is, whether she as...
Thursday, 14 December 2017

Probation- The Shape of Things to Come?

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The Chief Inspector of Probation's Annual Report published today may not be the nail in the coffin of Transforming Rehabilitation – t...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

Why Less is More- The Case for Dealing with Offences Out of Court

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With mounting pressure on police and justice budgets across the country, it’s surprising that recent years have seen a large decline in the...
Thursday, 9 November 2017

Rush to Judgement

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  “In order for courts to make greater use of probation, they must know about what non- custodial sentences entail and have confidence that...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Youth Custody Update- Nothing for Young Adults , Fantasy for Children

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Like many discussions on young adults in the criminal justice, today’s Justice Committee hearing turned out mostly to be about children und...
Sunday, 29 October 2017

Margin of Error: Government Proposals on Prisoner Voting Are Not Good Enough

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So the Government may finally allow convicted prisoners to vote in elections albeit in very limited circumstances. It’s not clear from the ...
Wednesday, 4 October 2017

A Matter of Judgement

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Earlier this week, Labour peer Lord Adonis shifted his fire from university bosses to judges. Both are often considered (and consider thems...
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Independent researcher and consultant on criminal and youth justice and prisons, co-founder of Justice and Prisons, working in UK and abroad.
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