A Case Study of an English Community Court
This article reports on the results of case study research into the implementation and operation of a community court in an English city.
Representations of British Probation Officers in Film, Television Drama and Novels 1948-2012
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.
Scaling it Down? A Study to Identify how 16+ Young Offenders Across Leicestershire Engage with Education, Training or Employment
This paper describes research into the education, training and employment (ETE) status of young offenders in Leicestershire, England.
Factors Contributing to Victims’ Satisfaction with Restorative Justice Practice: A Qualitative Examination
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).
Reforming the Force: An Examination of the Impact of the Operational Sub-Culture on Reform and Modernisation Within the Police Servic
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.
Widows and Community Based Transitional Justice in Post Genocide Rwanda
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).