The policy agenda on crime and criminal justice is moving fast. PERU undertakes research and evaluation that strengthens the evidence-base about what works.
PERU’s Kevin Wong will appear on BBC Radio Manchester today to talk about The Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival. This month-long FREE festival brings together crime fiction to illuminate…
As human beings, we tend to be drawn to simple ideas and simple solutions, something which Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman describes as ‘cognitive ease’. We prefer ideas and…
PERU has completed a review of technology in probation supervision that is published today by HM Inspectorate of Probation. The full report is now available and the accompanying news release by the Inspectorate…
PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has been invited back to the Prison Research Centre, Cambridge University to lead a seminar today on Philosophy Education in Prisons. She previously completed her PhD at the…
The British Journal of Community Justice website is going live to our readers today. It’s a special issue on women offenders. This re-launch of the journal under ManMet stewardship…
During a private visit to Vietnam over the Christmas period PERU's Dr Peter Traynor was invited to address the Vietnamese National Police Academy in Hanoi. The academy is formally a university…
PERU’s Kevin Wong is proposing a distinctive model for the voluntary sector to engage with people with convictions built on: reciprocity, reliability, consistency and emotional pleasure. He has elaborated…
PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has had an article on boredom published by a leading philosophy magazine, How the Light Gets In. She discusses the importance of occupying the mind, drawing on prison sociology…
Complex commissioning for complex needs using partnerships, individuals assets and lived experience to build fulfilling lives. This free seminar will examine what makes a good hate crime reporting service…
Fulfilling the legacy of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report – twenty years on This free seminar will examine what makes a good hate crime reporting service and introduces the first 'third-party…
PERU’s Rachel Kinsella and Kevin Wong along with other MMU colleagues have now completed their three year evaluation of the Whole System Approach to Women Offenders in Greater Manchester. The…
PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has been invited to give the closing keynote to the Tutor’s Association conference at the Barbican centre in London on October 16th 2018. Having read her work on the…
MMU is proud to be hosting the Prison Learning Alliance (PLA) Conference 2018. The PLA is an alliance of organisations and individuals who have an interest in prison education. Their aim is to provide…
A submission authored by PERU's Gavin Bailey, Phil Edwards and Kevin Wong has been published by the Defence Committee inquiry into Global Islamist Terrorism. Their paper argued that Islamist terrorism…
PERU Associate Dr. Phil Edwards has published a paper arguing that contemporary British counter-terrorist legislation is dominated by ‘counter-law’ - the idea of using law against law. He is…
