Keep up-to-date with drugs and crime

The latest research, policy, practice and opinion on our criminal justice and drug & alcohol treatment systems
Search

My latest blog posts

barriers
On Probation
The plight of foreign national women

Sophia Benedict highlights the barriers to community resettlement for foreign national women in new research for the Griffins Society.

I ain't perfect
Prison
What are rehabilitative adjudications?

New HMMPS research evaluates rehabilitation adjudication pilots in four English prisons and finds value in this procedural justice approach.

man on bunk in cell
Prison
Prisoners’ experience under COVID-19

The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody gives a unique insight into the experiences of those detained in prisons during the Covid-19 crisis.

Data analysis
Criminal Justice
The latest criminal justice trends

Official data for 2019 shows fewer defendants, more Crown Courts remands in custody and fewer people sent to prison, but for longer.

Alcohol tag MoJ
Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
Sobriety tags come into force

The ankle tags, which are to be rolled out across England and Wales, perform around-the-clock monitoring of an offender’s sweat to determine whether alcohol has been consumed.

Subscribe

Get every blog post by email for free