Labour pledges to introduce new protections for victims of crime and persistent antisocial behaviour, by increasing the ...

This is the second in a short series of posts summarising the manifesto pledges on criminal justice made by the main ...

Leo Tigges and Stephen Pitts recently undertook a European study to understand how probation capacity can be developed by ...

It is a tradition of this blog that I summarise the main manifesto pledges of the main political parties during the general election campaign. Usually I interpret “main” as Labour, LibDems and ...

Between them they observed over 1,100 hearings and reported on the treatment of defendants, the decision-making of ...

The emotional impact of online fraud for victims is worse than the financial hit, even when the loss was tens of thousands of pounds, according to new findings from a study speaking to victims of ...

On 31st March this year there were 23,614 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post; an increase of 1,396 FTE (6.3%) since 31 March 2023 and of 416 FTE (1.8%) prison officers compared to 31 December 2023.

Yesterday (20 May 2024) CourtWatch London published a new report on open justice in London’s magistrates’ courts. Entitled “Why are you here?“, the report draws on the experiences of 82 volunteer ...

Regular readers may remember that three years ago the Butler Trust launched a new resource aimed at everyone who works in a criminal justice setting. The Knowledge Exchange is an online library of ...