Tags are keywords. I put tags on every post to help you find the content you want. Tags may be people (Dominic Raab, say), organisations (The Howard League, PRT), themes (women offenders, homelessness) or specific items (heroin, racial disparity, ROTL). If you’re looking to research a particular issue, they can be invaluable.
New Rapid Evidence Assessment finds likelihood of reoffending “lower for offenders who had been exposed to some type of supervision”.
Binge drinking is a major predictor of women’s reoffending.
Beyond Youth Custody argues for a theory of change for young people leaving custody which prioritises young people as the agents of their own change.
Excellent set of 10 principles from Revolving Doors Agency for those designing services for people with complex needs. Informed by lived experience.
Russell Webster looks back at 18 stories of people who have left prison behind to forge new and successful careers in the criminal justice system.
Alan Mackie of Get The Data argues that we too often overlook the importance of worker-service user relationships in successful desistance work.
An example of peer mentor-led innovative probation practice sharing individual stories and the strategies and decisions which facilitated their desistance.
Sarah Anderson in this year’s Probation Journal best paper discusses the value and effectiveness of probation officers bearing witness to desistance.
A new conceptual paper by Breaking Free Online argues that digital technologies are idea to address substance misuse and offending behaviour at the same time.
Valuable report from Beyond Youth Custody rounds up the key learning about young people’s desistance from 16 projects taking place over the last 5 years.
New app being trialled in prisons and the community supports desistance through helping offenders with education, employment, health and much more.
Excellent initiative from Probation Board of Northern Ireland pioneers the use of an app to promote desistance and help with mental health & addiction issues.
