Publications

This toolkit is for any practitioner who is involved in, or considering creating, a point-of-arrest diversion scheme for young people in contact with the criminal justice system.

This briefing provides findings from interviews with 21 young people between the ages of 18 and 24 with recent experience of attending magistrates’ court. The aim was to learn about how they experienced court as well as get their views on improvements.

This book is a collection of essays that seek to not only describe the problem of violence in our society but also to offer solutions to it.

In response to the ‘Strengthening Probation, Building Confidence’ consultation held by the Ministry of Justice, this briefing lays out the Centre’s vision for a new strategy for effective community supervision.

This briefing summarises initial findings on the decline in the use of pre-sentence reports in courts in England and Wales over the past five years.

This report highlights a number of emerging technologies that are beginning to reshape how the justice system impacts the daily lives of the public. This report explores the potential impact of those technologies— for both good or ill— in making our justice system fairer and more effective.

This report sets out a new model for a procedurally fairer court process for young adult defendants in England and Wales. Along with the model and its supporting evidence, the report contains a plan for areas who wish to implement the model.

This briefing explores why the use of community sentences in England and Wales has declined over the last ten years while it has increased in Scotland.

This briefing for Police and Crime Commissioners outlines why and how they can help ensure good quality diversion from the justice system is available for children and young people across the country.

This briefing explores the history of three of Scotland’s newest problem-solving courts: The Aberdeen Problem-Solving Approach, Forfar Problem-Solving Court and Edinburgh Alcohol Problem-Solving Court.