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This article starts from the position that the Carter report’s proposals for combining the Prison and Probation Service into a single organisation with separate arms for commissioning and providing services are basically sound, although there are serious concerns about their implementation.

The rise of the evidence-based approach has influenced how criminological research is conducted in Britain.

Criminological research has historically focused on the crimes of marginalised sections of the population and in particular marginalised young people.

Traditionally in the UK scant research attention has been paid to the arrestee population.

Whilst issues of rural poverty and exclusion have received some national media attention in recent years, the problem of racist victimisation in rural areas has been largely overlooked within academic and political discussion of the rural.

This paper offers some critical reflections on and lesson-drawing from the current modernising project in the local governance of crime, justice and safety in the UK and Australia.