[Prison Service Journal (2022)]
Article on the issue of assaults on prison staff and how to prevent them.
Keywords: staff assaults, safer custody
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Bereavement behind bars: prison and the grieving process
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
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
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 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
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
Promising approaches to knife crime: an exploratory study
Promising approaches to knife crime: an exploratory study
[HMI Probation (2022)]
Research and analysis bulletin on approaches to tacklnig knife crime. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].
Keywords: knife crime
Maternal imprisonment
Maternal imprisonment
[Clinks (2021)]
This evidence review provides an in-depth look at the issue of maternal imprisonment and the impact of this imprisonment on the children affected, the mothers themselves and the family members (typically grandmothers) who take over childcare responsibilities. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].
Keywords: female offenders, families, mothers, children
Supporting families of people in prison and on probation
Supporting families of people in prison and on probation
[Clinks (2021)]
This paper summarises the evidence base on the impact of imprisonment on family members, and how they might most effectively be mitigated. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].
Keywords: families
Food Matters in Prisons: Briefing Paper
Food Matters in Prisons: Briefing Paper
[Food Matters (2024)]
This report, from the charity, Food Matters, examines the state of food in UK prisons and makes key recommendations for improving prisoner welfare and security through food. Underpinning the briefing is the belief that food should be part of the “solution to criminal behaviour”, forming an integral part of a rehabilitative environment.