Paul Bullen and Helen Cook discuss innovative mental health practice in Northamptonshire.

Today, the Justice Secretary David Gauke made a speech at the Centre for Social Justice about prison reform. His announcement of additional investment in installing in-cell telephones in prisons is a welcome move.

Phil Bowen discusses the concerns over rising crime.

Eleo Tibbs reviews a new study demonstrating the positive effects of youth diversion

Firstly, we are aware that adolescence is a time of experimentation as well as a pivotal point of transition from childhood to adulthood. Secondly, young people will seek to take risks at this period of time in their life cycle with very little thought of the long term consequences.

The number of under twelve month sentenced offenders in prison is small— latest prison population figures show they occupy just 6.4% of the available prison capacity

How do we go about reducing the use of short sentences and what will its impact be?

Jo Thomas, our head of innovative practice, recently spent a morning with the Birmingham burglary intervention team to discuss its latest innovative programme and meet one of its participants. 

Our court system has its own sense of style, dark wood panelling, a golden crest, and the dock, its own set of rules, to bow or not bow, and even its own language, mitigation, adjournment and remand. For those who appear in court, the whole experience can feel not only intimidating but alien.

Dan Hayes, a serving police officer with West Yorkshire Police, discusses neighbourhood and evidence-based policing