‘Defining and Recognising are not the Same’: Challenges to Tackling Hate Crime in a Performance Culture

Hate Crime can be defined as that section of criminal behaviour that is motivated by the victim’s membership or perceived membership of a particular group.

Guest Editorial (7.3)

Organizational Experiences of Performance Targeting: Police, Prisons & Probation

Performance targeting has developed differently in the three key criminal justice agencies, police, prison and probation.

Book Reviews (7.3)

Race Relations in Prison: Managing Performance and Developing Engagement

This paper explores the paradox that whilst the quantitative measures of prison performance in relation to ‘race relations’ indicate substantial improvements in service delivery, more qualitative measures of the quality of prison life appear to indicate little substantive improvement in race relations.

Book Reviews (7.2)

Editorial (7.2)

Practitioner Report: From Rhetoric to Reality: The Probation Service Contribution to Empowering Victims

The rhetoric about support for victims of crime is excellent, and the themes of many victim conferences over recent years have sounded both impressive and powerful.