In this working paper, Dr Tom McNeil reflects on the key challenges to organisational change and cultural reform in policing.
An overview of youth diversion data and recommendations for improvement in youth diversion data.
This briefing published aims to support practitioners seeking to develop or improve gender specific pre court diversion schemes.
It calls for a review of the purposes of sentencing, with greater priority given to rehabilitation in sentencing decisions
The response draws on research on youth custody and on racially minoritised children and young people in the justice system
The article argues that risk assessment in restorative justice incorporates a different paradigm.
A roundtable note from Clinks on dealing with prison capacity and diverting people away from prison.
A report on the role that Alternative Provision in educational settings play in addressing rising levels of violence amongst youth.
This article utilises findings from a qualitative and prospective interview study to illustrate what it means to desist.
The aims of LandWorks are reducing reoffending, improving individual wellbeing, and changing attitudes towards offenders in community.
The report highlights the over-representation of children with special educational needs in the youth justice system
This paper forms part of the Youth Endowment Fund’s work to provide guidance to local leaders on evidence-led diversion.
This article assesses whether CBT is a theoretically coherent approach for rehabilitation in criminal justice
This paper highlights police drug offence diversion schemes and why they are necessary.
This paper is Advance’s response to the consultation on the draft Diversionary and
Community Cautions Code of Practice.
This study examines whether particular past offences are more frequent amongst criminals who ‘escalated’ to very serious offending.
This article aims to highlight how the structural and functional mechanisms of 12 step
programmes might support criminal desistance
This document summarises these findings and refers to issues with out of court disposal use raised in the wider police workforce survey.
This booklet outlines the case for diversion and out of court approaches
This project explores the experiences of children and young people, some of whom had been diverted, and some had not.