Criminal Justice
Mistrusting justice?
ICPR and Revolving Doors share personal stories of legal proceedings in the Criminal and Family Courts
23rd July 2026
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ICPR and Revolving Doors share personal stories of legal proceedings in the Criminal and Family Courts
It is this relentless focus on ensuring that everything we do actually achieves our aims that is desperately needed in crime and justice policy. To do something radical such as cutting prison numbers, a new Justice Secretary will need allies and I think the best bet is the Treasury.
These principles are based on a combination of desistance and recovery theory as well as Revolving Doors’ research and development work on the ground.
The briefing looks at these three models in some detail and helpfully identifies that they share a number of core principles: a strengths based approach, which operates over a sustained period, and which is tailored to meet individual needs.
Following a balanced and coherent examination of these key difficulties based on the real life application of PbR in the UK through the various homeless, workless, offending and troubled families initiatives, the Revolving Doors report comes to five principal conclusions:
