The policy agenda on crime and criminal justice is moving fast. PERU undertakes research and evaluation that strengthens the evidence-base about what works.
HM Inspectorate of Probation today publish a report by Professors Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson, exploring the concept of innovation and its application to the delivery of probation services. As shown…
The new free issue of the British Journal of Community Justice has been published today. It includes papers that span criminal justice activity, from policing through to prisons, drawing on experiences…
Last week PERU were pleased to host the second in a series of seminars for the Prisoner Learning Academic Network. PERU’s Dr Kirstine Szifris (vice-Chair) is collaborating with Dr Morwenna Bennallick,…
Dave Nicholson who is a PhD student with PERU has written a chapter on the potential for co-operatives to re-shape community payback in a book published yesterday. Crime and Consequence: What…
In a new paper published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation, PERU’s Kevin Wong argues that probation provision is complex, delivered by a wide range of providers dealing with diverse…
Rachel Horan PERU Associate Researcher and Director of the Averment Group along with PERU’s Kevin Wong and Kirstine Szifris set out the case for operationalising risk needs and responsivity (RNR)…
PERU’s Kevin Wong will make the case for adopting market stewardship principles in contracting with voluntary sector agencies at a conference on “The power of collaboration: Working…
Congratulations to Charlotte Gislam and Rebecca Wynne-Walsh, the joint winners of the Festival’s student choice competition. PERU’s Kevin Wong who lead the judging panel commented: “We…
PERU is pleased to announce that it is working with the Youth Endowment Fund to evaluate 3 of the twenty two projects for which funding is announced today. PERU’s Kevin Wong and Steve Morris working…
At a national conference today PERU’s Kevin Wong will argue that the Government’s Hate Crime Reporting Policy is fundamentally flawed, reliant on good intentions but inadequately resourced.…
Over the next three years PERU will evaluate the implementation and impact of the RESCALED programme. RESCALED is a prison reform movement advocating for small scale detention that aims at fundamentally…
The recently established Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has announced that PERU, with our colleagues at the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS), has been successful in its bid to join their new…
Chris Fox delivered a presentation to HM Inspectorate of Probation's Summer School for its Assistant Inspectors. His presentation looked at different models of innovation, particularly social innovation,…
Kirstine Szifris has been appointed the vice-Chair of Prisoner Learning Academic Network (PLAN). This network is hosted by the Prisoners’ Education Trust and aims to develop a multi-disciplinary…
In his inaugural lecture in March, PERU’s Visiting Professor Sir Martin Narey reflected on the links between care, custody, alcohol and child neglect, and argued that the “…children’s…
