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The pros and cons of probation community hubs
HMI Probation explores the role of community hubs in helping to deliver probation services and support desistance.
Keeping prisoners active throughout lockdown
How Fine Cell Work is keeping prisoners active. First in a new blog series on how the criminal justice sector is protecting its service users against the impact of coronavirus.
Drug-related violence in the UK
Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs analyses drug-related violence in the UK.
Justice does not stop at the prison gates
The Howard League launches a new programme encouraging people to think differently about what happens behind bars with a briefing on procedural justice.
Delivering hate crime community projects
The successes and challenges of delivering hate crime community projects.
New research finds polygraphs effective for sex offenders
University of Kent research concludes that voluntary and mandatory polygraph testing increases the likelihood that individuals convicted or suspected of committing a sexual offence will reveal risk-relevant information.
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