1st November 2012Mental Health Treatment RequirementsThis report focuses on Mental Health Treatment Requirements and their ability to address a major cause of offending behaviour. It warns that...Read the article
1st October 2012Police and Crime Commissioners BriefingThis briefing sets out 10 key issues for incoming PCCs in relation to their role in delivering community safety and...Read the article
1st May 2012Reducing the Use of Imprisonment: What can we learn from Europe?This report analyses how several European countries, especially the Netherlands and Germany have seen a sharp decline in their prison...Read the article
1st May 2012Delivering Justice: The role of the public, private and voluntary sectors in prisons and probationThis collection of essays on the role of the public, private and voluntary sectors within the criminal justice system, attempts...Read the article
1st May 2012Ministry of Justice Consultation: Swift and Sure JusticeMinimising unnecessary and undue delays within the criminal justice system is something the Criminal Justice Alliance welcomes. Uncertainty around timings...Read the article
12th March 2012Empty Cells or Empty Words? Government policy on reducing the number of women going to prisonThis report considers how and why the female prison population has increased and what the consequences have been. This is...Read the article
1st March 2012Crowded out? The impact of prison overcrowding on rehabilitationThis report provides evidence of the corrosive impact of prison overcrowding on the work of charities and organisations in prisons...Read the article
1st July 2011Restorative Justice: Time for ActionRestorative justice involves everyone affected in a crime talking together about its impact, and what needs to happen to repair...Read the article
1st July 2011Sentencing Young Adults: Getting it RightThis Transition to Adulthood (T2A) report sets out current sentencing procedure for young adults, examines the case for considering maturity...Read the article
1st March 2011Response to ‘Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders’The CJA welcomes the emphasis on rehabilitation, wider availability of restorative justice, increased diversion for offenders with mental health problems,...Read the article
1st July 2010Criminal justice and government at a time of austerity by David FaulknerThis discussion paper considers the development of criminal justice in England over the last 20 years, the policies leading to...Read the article
1st January 2010Criminal Justice: Areas for ActionThis briefing recognises a fresh approach to criminal justice policy is long overdue and suggests twelve problem areas within the...Read the article
1st December 2009Transforming Justice: New approaches to the criminal justice systemThis collection of essays brings together experts on penal policy, including academics, campaigners and politicians, who put forward a selection...Read the article
