Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.

The working group’s report puts forward six recommendations – including an important change to the Parole Board test, which ...

A s part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug ...

Conclusions The key findings of Dame Carol’s analysis of revenue from the illicit drug market in England and Wales are: It is estimated that consumers in England and Wales spent £9.4 billion on drugs ...

T he Global Drug Survey has just published the final report on its Special Edition on COVID-19 which was developed as part of a global effort to better understand the impact of the pandemic on ...

T he Week in Justice is a short email digest of the latest news and views on criminal justice matters in the UK (mainly England & Wales). It shares interactive headlines on new policy announcements, ...

Work and desistance Everyone knows that finding work is a key component to going straight; a factor which is confirmed by the evidence base. There are four key reasons why employment promotes ...

T he main purpose of this site is to keep readers up to date with all the latest development – policy announcements; research; statistics and practice developments and innovations. But the site also ...

Y esterday (14 May 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching and ...

L ast month I wrote about the MoJ’s new leadership model for HMPPS and what I could glean about the new ONE HMPPS model, questioning whether it was in fact a merger of the prison and probation ...

I n this blog post, I pick out some key statistics to show how the prison systems in the UK (there are separate figures for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) compare with the rest of ...

Findings The main findings of the report were: The total estimated economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion. The estimated economic and social cost of reoffending by adults was £16.7 ...