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.
Inspectors find Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) is falling well short of expected standards and call for the model to be overhauled.
Desistance, recovery, and justice capital:
Putting it all together
Attachment theory can contribute to work with people on probation in conceptualising the supervisory relationship, and in understanding offending, risk and relationships.
Too many Serious Further Offence reviews are falling below par, with probation services not sufficiently identifying the necessary learning.
Probation inspectorate reviews how well youth offending services identify safety concerns.
The national youth custody system is failing to provide very vulnerable girls with the environment and support they need.
Amanda Holt summarises the research findings on child to parent abuse, covering its prevalence, contexts, and impacts.
Professional curiosity can be a useful tool for probation staff assessing risk and supporting people to change.
Research into how confident probation staff feel about working with people at risk of suicide or self-harm.
Joint inspection finds MAPPA under-used and inconsistent, despite a 70% increase in caseload in the last decade.
Adultification bias results in Black children’s rights being diminished and notions of innocence and vulnerability displaced by responsibility and culpability.
Latest HMI Probation research bulletin identifies four promising approaches to tackling knife crime.
