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Tom Ford from the Centre for Peaceful Solutions on a pilot restorative community within HMP Dartmoor.
Ian Marder highlights the Council of Europe guidelines on restorative justice.
Rona Epstein argues that we could cut the prison population and hate crime at the same time.
Why me? report finds that victims’ access to restorative justice depends, to a very large degree, on where you live in England and Wales.
All the political parties support restorative justice, so why is it so often unavailable? The Criminal Justice Alliance calculates an annual cost of just £30.5m
A short and belated Restorative Justice action plan from the MoJ sets out key objective of universal, high quality provision but without funding details.
New report from the House of Commons Justice Select Committee reaffirms the value of restorative justice but finds that access to RJ remains a postcode lottery.
If prison governors want to reduce reoffending while promoting the interests of victims in the justice system, it is vital that they ensure restorative justice is available.
Bob Neill MP, Chair of the Justice Select Committee, introduces its new inquiry into restorative justice – please respond by 31st January 2016.
Why don’t you celebrate Restorative Justice Week by making sure that all your local RJ providers are registered on the Restorative Justice Council’s new map of RJ in the criminal justice system?
Restorative Justice Council has commissioned ICPR to map all restorative justice service in the criminal justice system in England and Wales. Get involved.
It appears that there is a growing evidence base of the potential benefits of RJ for victims of sexual violence, depending on a number of issues which are addressed with some care in this guidance.