This article provides a review and critique of the current research findings about restorative justice.

During autumn 2005, the author led a feasibility study investigating the experiences of 17 Xhosa men and women from the Eastern Cape who had, in some way, fought in the struggle for liberation from apartheid in its early days.

In the past twenty-five years or so, the pluralist tradition in the criminal justice system has been undermined by a political obsession with punishment, and one of the consequences of this has been the marginalisation of probation values and practice and a misguided reshaping of the probation model.

This paper addresses the under representation of Black and minority ethnic (BME) sex offenders in the sex offender treatment programme (SOTP) of the prisons of England and Wales.

It is a fundamental belief of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons that administrative detention of children under immigration powers should be exceptional and for the shortest possible period.