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New Jobs Board

Looking for work or looking for workers in the drugs and crime sectors? Then check out this new job board with high quality jobs for high calibre workers.

Payment by Results
Quality assurance in payment by results contracts

The main message from the literature is that commissioners need to be proactive in ensuring that PbR providers deliver a good quality service — particularly when service users include vulnerable groups

Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
European drug markets – 2016 update

Europe, both as individual countries and, collectively, as the EU may have good intelligence about the way the European drug markets work but has limited impact on disrupting them.

Criminal Justice
A better way to count crime

A Crime Harm Index is a low-cost, easily adoptable barometer of the total impact of harm from crimes committed by other citizens, as reported by witnesses and victims.

Criminal Justice
Global executions at a 25 year high

The number of countries that executed people rose – from 22 in 2014 to 25 in 2015. At least six countries resumed executions: Bangladesh, Chad, India, Indonesia, Oman and South Sudan.

On Probation
Restorative justice for women offenders

The Restorative Justice Council has just published new research and an associated practice guide on restorative justice with women offenders.

Policing
Violence at work

Police officers and health and social care workers are particularly at risk of violence at work.

Payment by Results
Attributing outcomes in payment by results contracts

When outcomes are the basis for payment, it is important that the provider receiving the payments is responsible for achieving the outcomes. Targets should not be unduly influenced by external factors (such as the state of the economy for Work Programme type schemes) or by the work of other agencies who are not receiving payment from the contract.

Policing
Why do we criminalise young people in care?

The children who are being criminalised whilst teenagers are the same children who, when younger, were sympathetically viewed as vulnerable, innocent and highly deserving of society’s help and protection.

Payment by Results
UK aims for £1billion Social Impact Bonds

It’s no surprise that the government is such a strong supporter of social investment; at a time when investment in public services is being cut substantially year after year, #socinv is a key source of extra funding.

Criminal Justice
Young Muslims on trial

New report on the consequences of Islamophobia on criminal justice decision making from Maslaha and the T2A Alliance

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