The Impact of Restorative and Conventional Responses to Harm on Victims: A Comparative Study

This article presents the results of intervention research that compared the impact on victims of restorative and conventional approaches to juvenile justice.

Book Reviews (11.1)

Changes in the Role of Justice Social Workers in Italy: Questions of Control, Assistance and Officers’ Training

This paper aims at analysing the evolution of the enforcement of non-custodial sentences in Italy. In 1975, a new role was introduced, that of the justice social worker, with the duty of supervising the so-called “non-custodial measures”.

The Governance of Social Marginality in the UK: Towards the Centaur State?

Burgeoning prison populations and the growing use of compulsion in welfare policies across much of the western world has stimulated a great deal of academic discussion.

Paying for Justice: Prison and Probation in an Age of Austerity

Rob Allen is an independent researcher and co-founder of Justice and Prisons (www.justiceandprisons.org).

Talking About Drugs: Towards a More Reasoned Debate

This article aims to outline and discuss a number of issues that arise from the current popular conceptualisations of ‘the drug problem’.

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