Martin Narey, recently appointed Commissioner for Correctional Services at the Home
Office, gave the following lecture at the Community Justice Portal’s Inaugural Public
Lecture at Sheffield Hallam University in April 2003. Focusing on the challenges facing
the correctional services, this is the first in a series of annual public lectures on issues of
interest across the community and criminal justice sectors. The lecture series forms part of
the networking and knowledge exchange features of the Community Justice Portal which
can be accessed at www.cjp.org.uk