This paper offers an overview of representations of the British probation service in three fictional media over a sixty year period, up to the present time.

This paper describes research into the education, training and employment (ETE) status of young offenders in Leicestershire, England.

Extant research indicates that restorative justice can deliver benefits which the traditional Criminal Justice Process cannot, ranging from victim satisfaction to reducing offender recidivism (Zehr, 2005; Bergseth & Bouffard, 2007).

This article explores the contention that the police service within England and Wales demonstrates difficulty in carrying out long-term reform and  modernisation in response to criticism and critical case recommendations.

After decades of cycles of violence between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, 1994 witnessed genocide more effective than Hitler's gas chambers (Carlsson, 2005) costing the lives of estimates between 500,000 (Desforges, 1999) to one million people (Gourevitch, 1998).

'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.