Most communities seek to reduce crime in their locality.

The article reviews the risk prevention paradigm and contemporary responses to youth posing a risk and, to a lesser extent, youth at risk.

This paper explores the potential for deploying the discourse of human rights to invigorate debate about the ethics of penal practices and in particular the values of probation.

Over the last twenty years the prison population in the UK has been rising at an unprecedented rate.

The Thames Valley Partnership held a conference on 18th March, 2008, to celebrate the work of its retiring Chief Executive, Sue Raikes, and to review the Partnership’s experience over the 15 years of its existence and the twelve years during which Sue Raikes had been Chief Executive.

Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) are an innovative, volunteer-based means of supervising sex offenders, usually upon release from prison, which were 'transplanted' from Canada to England and Wales at the turn of the 21st century.

Community Justice attempts to achieve various outcomes. Extensive community engagement and involvement is one of these and the extent to which this is achieved can distinguish community justice as distinct from traditional justice models.