Publications

The FDAC national partnership uses the term Service Standards to describe the key elements that FDAC services should strive toward to have fidelity with the evaluated FDAC model.

This handbook provides practitioners with comprehensive information and a set of tools about FDAC operations. This was developed by the now closed FDAC National Unit under Department of Education funding.

This report explores what has changed in the relationship between sentencers and probation services over the past five years and provides recommendations for change.

This briefing provides findings from our comprehensive survey of point-of-arrest youth diversion in England and Wales.

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.