Thought Piece - 'Thought Pieces' are papers which draw on the author's personal knowledge and experience to offer stimulating and thought provoking ideas relevant to the aims of the Journal.

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

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”.

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.

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

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