Object and Subject: The Challenges of Peer Research in Community Justice

This paper reports on the process of conducting peer research in order to identify barriers to employment, training and education (hereafter referred to as ETE) for women (ex)offenders.

Book Reviews (3.1)

Community Justice Files 8

NOMS, the Courts and Civil Renewal

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.

Are Randomised Controlled Trials Really the ‘Gold Standard’ in Restorative Justice Research?

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

Criminological Ethnography: Risks, Dilemmas and Their Negotiation

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

Normalizing the Deviant?: Arrestees and the Normalization of Drug Use

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

Racist Victimisation, Community Safety and the Rural: Issues and Challenges

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.