Professional Education in Youth Justice: Mirror or Motor
15 September 2010
This paper explores the current training of youth justice practitioners and suggests that there is now a polarisation between the teaching of youth justice in England and Wales into an unhelpful vocational-academic dichotomy.
Clashes in Culture? The ‘Professionalisation’ and ‘Criminalisation’ of the Drugs Workforce
15 September 2010
In the last decade, the number of people in drugs treatment in England has more than doubled to a total of 207,580 in 2008/9. The increasing access to drugs treatment has been accompanied by an expansion and development of the drugs workforce.
Editorial (9.1-2)
14 September 2010
Prisoners as Citizens: ‘Big Society’ and the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ – Truly Revolutionary?
14 September 2010
Given the government's commitment to localism, social inclusion and transfer of power from politicians to communities embodied by the Big Society agenda, we question whether these principles have been adequately translated within 'Payments by Results' and the supposed 'Rehabilitation Revolution' Green Paper.
Rebalancing Criminal Justice: Potentials and Pitfalls for Neighbourhood Justice Panels
14 September 2010
The coalition government have pledged a commitment to a shift from 'Big Government' that presumes to know best, to the 'Big Society' that trusts in people for ideas and innovation to mend Britain's 'broken society'.
The Economic, Social and Political Context of the Local Community Approach to Integrated Offender Management: Theory and Practice, Rhetoric and Reality
14 September 2010
Recent proposals for a new approach to criminal justice policy have been heralded by the coalition government as 'radical' and 'revolutionary'.
Book reviews (8.1)
17 March 2010
‘What Have we Done Right?’ Targets and Youth Crime Prevention
17 March 2010
The article considers the impact of targets set for criminal justice agencies on the effort to prevent youth crime.