custodial

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Relapses and challenges of desistance

[Prison Service Journal (2022)]

Article, based on interviews of men reconvicted of a sexual offence after release, and some of the key challenges affecting desistance.

Keywords: sex offenders, desistance

Reducing reoffending & increasing community (re)integration… when people have a sexual conviction

[Clinks (2022)]

This evidence review provides an in-depth look at the issue of reducing reoffending and increasing community (re)integration for people who have a sexual conviction. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].

Keywords: sex offenders, desistance

PSJ Special Edition on life imprisonment

[Prison Service Journal (2022)]

Special edition of PSJ looking at life imprisonment and its impact on prisoners and their families.

Keywords: lifers

Prison education: a review of reading education in prisons

[HMI Prisons (2022)]

This research was conducted as part of Ofsted and HMI Prisons’ commitment to carry out a year-long review of prison education. Six prisons were visited and the findings are based on interviews with senior prison leaders, education leaders, teachers, librarians, prison officers and prisoners.

Keywords: education, reading

Preventing Prison Staff Assaults

[Prison Service Journal (2022)]

Article on the issue of assaults on prison staff and how to prevent them.

Keywords: staff assaults, safer custody

Bereavement behind bars: prison and the grieving process

[Prison Service Journal (2021)]

Article on how incarceration impacts on the grieving process.

Keywords: bereavement

Academic Insights: Mentoring and Peer Mentoring

[HMI Probation (2021)]

Review of the evidence base on the impact of mentoring and peer mentoring on mentors and mentees, also includes useful advice on how mentoring schemes can go wrong. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].

Keywords: mentoring

Academic Insights: Needs assessment: risk, desistance and engagement

[HMI Probation (2021)]

Study highlighting the importance of effective and robust assessment for planning and service delivery, and considering the potential for improvements to assessment processes. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].

Keywords: assessment

Informing Futures Toolkit

[Informing Futures (2021)]

A toolkit of free resources, information and guidance for professionals seeking to understand and support care and custody experienced young people.

Keywords: mental health, trauma, young people

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people, and the criminal justice system

[The Traveller Movement (2022)]

A series of reports by the Traveller Movement on GRT people and their needs, including in the criminal justice system – they include recommendations on good practice.

Keywords: diversity, travellers, GRT